Are We Living in the Matrix? A DevOps Engineer’s Take on Simulation Theory

Every now and then, I like to take a step back from building CI/CD pipelines and setting up Terraform modules to ask life’s big questions.

Questions like: Why is it that every time I hit “Deploy,” it always fails on a Friday afternoon?

Or even bigger: Are we all just bits of data running in some cosmic container orchestrated by beings with a taste for simulation?

Today, I’m diving into the idea that maybe just maybe we’re all living in a matrix.

Not the “I accidentally skipped a Terraform variable” kind of glitch, but a literal computer simulation.

So grab your red pill, folks, let’s get into it.

Glitches in the System: The Debugs of Life

Ever experienced déjà vu? Maybe it’s that strange sense you get when the cat walks by twice. You know, like when your Jenkins job fails, and you swear you fixed it only to find the same issue coming back again. Déjà vu could just be a harmless neurological hiccup, but simulation enthusiasts like to think of it as a glitch in the system a glitch in our matrix.

Take the time I was configuring an AWS load balancer. Everything looked perfect, yet nothing worked. After hours of…