1) DevOps in real time discusses challenges of maintaining 24/7 operations for multiple online projects and teams spread across different geographies. 2) The plan is to use tools like Chef, continuous integration, monitoring, backups, and team communication to improve processes around deployment cycles, server configuration, and working with many teams. 3) Chef is highlighted as a tool to help with automatic server configuration, continuous delivery, simplifying testing, controlling monitoring and backups. Templates, autoscaling, and single naming rules are also discussed to help manage infrastructure.