https://www.sh-soft.de/categories/drift/ Recent content in Drift on Steffen Hoppe – Infrastructure Reality & Insight Hugo en Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/understanding-drift/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/understanding-drift/ Most organizations acknowledge the existence of drift but treat it as an operational nuisance — something that happens occasionally due to human error or missing documentation. In reality, drift is not an exception. It is the natural state of long-lived systems. Drift is what happens when a system evolves faster than its declared intent, its documentation and its automation can keep up. And it happens everywhere, across all layers — configuration, code, defaults, deployments, environments, processes and organizational structures.