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DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the industry to define what DevOps means to them. The goal is to show just how many varied ideas are connected with the concept of DevOps, and in the process learn a little more what DevOps is all about. The third installment shows the impact of DevOps on both Dev and Ops team members.
Start with 17 Ways to Define DevOps - Part 1
Start with 17 Ways to Define DevOps - Part 2
8. EMPOWERING DEVELOPERS
DevOps takes away the friction between software developers and a traditional ops team by entrusting developers with responsibility for the products they build. It's not about giving developers more work to do — it's about giving them the power to get the whole job done rather than a small portion of it.
Ryan Park
Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Runscope
DevOps is a philosophy that places value on developers owning responsibility for service operations to enable a high velocity of infrastructure change without sacrificing service quality. It's less an organizational structure and more of a cultural transformation. By embedding operational discipline in the development process, technology-driven companies deliver better products faster. It's the only way for teams to deliver modern apps at scale.
Dan Turchin
VP of Product, Big Panda
9. EMPOWERING OPERATIONS
I see DevOps as official recognition that the classic model makes operations people frustrated with software developers, and vice versa. People whose natural instinct is to fix things rather than point fingers will not be shy about looking over the shoulder of the person in the other chair, and collaborating to remove obstacles. DevOps makes that part of an actual job description, rather than an unrecognized reality.
Thomas Stocking
Director of Sales Engineering, GroundWork
10. CROSS-FUNCTIONALITY
We can talk about agility, automation and collaboration til the cows come home, but DevOps is about people being generalists vs. specialists. Having a broad understanding of how to build and support applications, networks, databases and storage will become invaluable in cloud environments where nearly every service is built using APIs vs. bespoke code. When something breaks or goes wrong you shouldn't need experts to troubleshoot different areas of your environment, you need generalists who can leverage the insight that their APM, NPM and ITOA toolsets can provide.
Steve Burton
Chairman, VP of Product Marketing, Moogsoft
No matter what exact definition and flavor of DevOps an organization is following, I think a key element of DevOps is to have developers who act and think like ops people, and vice versa. Developers who are on-call and held accountable for ensuring that their code doesn't just do well in the lab environment, but is easy to operate and doesn't break under real-world circumstances will produce better applications.
Sven Dummer
Senior Director of Product Marketing, Loggly
11. BREAKING DOWN SILOS
DevOps is an amalgam of strategy, culture, methodology, architecture and technology that enables dev teams to break down silos and cumbersome frameworks in teams, systems and tech so that they can ship whatever they want whenever they want with higher quality and lower cost.
Steven Anderson
CEO, Clutch
DevOps means mitigating any and all constraints in order to roll out high-quality, high-performance software, faster, regardless of platform. Traditionally, mobile/distributed teams work in very different silos from mainframe teams. Each with their own distinct culture. Unfortunately, the characteristics of mainframe systems and culture can cause an overall software development effort to encounter slowdowns, or even come to a screeching halt. Fortunately, mainframe ISVs are making tremendous strides in modernizing and evolving these systems for non-mainframe experts, enabling a faster, more agile platform that can keep up with the pace of DevOps while nurturing innovation.
Christopher O'Malley
President and CEO, Compuware
Devops is about driving application transformation. Making things and people work not only as "islands" but a cool ecosystem of software development and infrastructure that is fueled by a passionate team attitude.
Stacy Gorkoff
VP, Strategic Marketing, INETCO
To achieve DevOps success, organizations must shift from silo-based management of their application infrastructures to a collaborative approach that offers end-to-end, correlated visibility to all stakeholders. This will enable faster and more accurate problem resolution, improved end-user satisfaction , rapid optimization and enhanced planning to scale the business for the future.
Arun Aravamudhan
Senior Product Architect, eG Innovations
Industry News
Kasm Technologies, in partnership with Docker, has developed Kasm Workspaces as a Containerized Desktop Infrastructure platform for streaming remote workspaces directly to your web browser.
Cascadeo announced the integration of Amazon DevOps Guru with cascadeo.io, Cascadeo’s cloud monitoring and management platform that provides users with a single view of multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments.
Oracle announced the availability of Java 18, the latest version of the programming language and development platform.
Docker announced the acquisition of Tilt, makers of a development environment as code for teams on Kubernetes.
F5 announced the release of F5 NGINX for Microsoft Azure, an Azure-native service offering developed in partnership with Microsoft, that helps customers deliver modern applications on Azure with just a few clicks.
Pegasystems announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that will help enable joint clients to accelerate their digital transformations with Pega’s low-code enterprise software on Google Cloud’s highly scalable cloud services.
Sauce Labs announced the release of contract testing with mocking on the Sauce Labs API Testing Platform.
Pure Storage announced a series of updates to its Portworx portfolio.
StackHawk has secured $20.7 million in capital.
Jellyfish announced the launch of Jellyfish Benchmarks, a way to add context around engineering metrics and performance by introducing a method for comparison.
Solo.io announced the addition and integration of Cilium networking into its Gloo Mesh platform, providing a complete application-networking solution for companies’ cloud-native digital transformation efforts.
Aqua Security announced multiple updates to Aqua Trivy, making it a unified scanner for cloud native security.
Red Hat unveiled updates across its portfolio of developer tools designed to help organizations build and deliver applications faster and more consistently across Kubernetes-based hybrid and multicloud environments.
Armory announced public early access to their new Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service product.