DevOps has been used for over a decade as a methodology for building and deploying applications faster. But it is only now that the methodologies and concepts pioneered many years ago have started to swing the dogs of digital business transformation.
Digital business transformation has been all the rage since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, organizations of all sizes are more aware of digital processes that enable them to better respond to changing business conditions, whether the global economy is expanding or contracting.
DevOps shakes the dog
Not long ago, ironically, business executives complained that IT wasn’t fast enough to keep up with the needs of their organizations. At the CloudBees DevOps World 2022 conference in Orlando next month, the first defined by DevOps pioneers to not only keep up with the current rate of innovation in application development, but to actually manage the business in many ways. It becomes clear that the concept has been adopted by companies. itself.
As Mitch Ashley, Principal Analyst at Techstrong Research, a division of Techstrong Group, publisher of both DevOps.com and Digital CxO, said in a recent podcast:
Of course, it took a long time for the relationship between IT and the business it supports to change. The debate over how to bridge the gap between IT and the rest of the business has been going on for decades. Despite the rise of DevOps, it has been over 11 years since the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was officially launched. Today, IT advances at a rate that many companies struggle to absorb.
In fact, what started as a small team of application development and deployment professionals looking for ways to automate building and deploying applications has now evolved into a multi-billion dollar sector of the software industry. And since the advent of the PC running word processing and spreadsheet applications in the 1980s, it has driven unprecedented levels of business transformation.
Software is (still) eating the world
It remains to be seen how big an impact DevOps will have in the future. Widespread adoption of DevOps best practices is still in its infancy, but as Marc Andreessen once pointed out, software continues to eat up the world. Today, much of its software is built with DevOps best practices in mind, using everything from containers to serverless computing frameworks to bring new capabilities to applications in and out of the cloud. We make it easy to add more. The pace of innovation is only accelerating.
That’s why it’s never been more important for DevOps professionals to come together face-to-face to share knowledge and insights. DevOps platforms have evolved significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams using these platforms have more influence than ever within their organizations. The best way to understand the value of DevOps is to learn firsthand how practitioners are adopting these principles to achieve their broader strategic business objectives.
Regardless of the size of your organization, the need to adopt and continuously improve DevOps processes and workflows is, as always, a pressing concern. It may be possible to achieve that goal alone, but it is no mistake that spending a few days in the company of thousands of like-minded souls makes achieving those goals much easier. There is none.
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