BrowserStack announced the launch of BrowserStack AI, a suite of AI agents integrated throughout the testing lifecycle to help software teams accelerate release cycles, improve test coverage, and boost productivity by up to 50%.
In DEVOPSdigest's first annual list of DevOps Predictions, experts — analysts and consultants, and the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, often controversial and sometimes contradictory predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2016. Part 2 covers the changing roles of Ops and Dev teams.
Start with 2016 DevOps Predictions - Part 1
OPS TAKES ON NEW RESPONSIBILITIES
In 2016, we'll see significant evolution of "Ops" responsibilities within existing DevOps workflows. To this point, many organizations have spent far more time redefining the role of "Dev", advancing software engineers' influence across development and testing, into production, and even into end user support. The result has been increasing developer burnout and questions regarding operations teams' changing identities. In response, we'll see greater emphasis on collaboration arcing from Ops back into the Dev world, such as through deeper monitoring of APIs and microservices to inform the development process. This year we'll see greater equality across the larger DevOps practitioner landscape.
Aruna Ravichandran
VP, DevOps Product and Solutions Marketing, CA Technologies
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NO OPS GAINS GROUND
NoOps will gain ground in 2016. This means developers will have greater ability to deploy code without involving operations, as the level of automation, and platform services in general, will continue to grow. For ops personnel, we will see that they will be fewer in number, but more strategic to their organizations, as they take on enhanced roles that involve a broader responsibility for the buildout of the architecture that they manage.
Maurico Roman
Data Scientist, Loggly
THE NOC IS DEAD
The traditional NOC is dead. To remain competitive, modern organizations must eliminate the cultural and organizational gaps that divide operations from development. NOC teams can't be expected to support apps if development teams aren't committed to building quality into the development process via continuous integration and test automation. Customers expect new features continuously. Management expects quality. The only way for IT to satisfy both demands is to commit to a culture that values joint app ownership, mutual respect, and accountability.
Dan Turchin
VP of Product, Big Panda
DATABASE ADMINS BECOME PART OF DEVOPS TEAM
When the silos of Development and Operations collapsed to form DevOps, cloud adoption had just started taking hold. We predict that with the recent displacement of on-prem storage by cloud providers gaining speed, along with the associated overhead maintenance of those systems being offloaded, tertiary silos such as database administration and IT collapsing into the DevOps ecosystem will become more prevalent.
Chris Smith
COO, Idera
DEVELOPER ENABLEMENT - THE NEW BUZZWORD
DevOps in 2016 will be about automating application delivery and providing transparency for the full process. Developer enablement will become a buzzword.
Kevin Fishner
Head of Customer Success, HashiCorp
THE DEVOPS SKILLS GAP
2016 will be the year of the DevOps skills gap. The concept of "performance management as a service" will begin to emerge, with a migration from a workforce focused on traditional manual processes to a workforce focused on continuous integration, automation, cloud computing, and data science. And, as DevOps teams grow, demand for self-service capabilities around automated testing and monitoring will expand, but companies could find themselves without the needed skills to fulfill that demand…and with limited sources for hiring those skills as well.
Tom Lounibos
CEO & Founder, SOASTA
Read 2016 DevOps Predictions - Part 3, covering the relationships between Dev, Ops and the Business.
Industry News
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LambdaTest has announced the release of SmartUI’s Smart Branching and Baseline Management.
Lens by Mirantis announced the availability of Lens Prism, a fully-integrated, production-grade artificial intelligence (AI) assistant embedded directly within the Lens integrated development environment (IDE).
vFunction announced GenAI-powered capabilities to refactor and rearchitect applications.
Payara announced a strategic partnership to help enterprises modernize their Java applications with a codeless, lift-and-shift migration solution, reducing infrastructure and cloud costs and boosting performance and scalability.
Backslash introduced a new, free resource for vibe coders, developers and security teams - the Backslash MCP Server Security Hub.
Google's Gemma 3n is the latest member of Google's family of open models. Google is announcing that Gemma 3n is now fully available for developers with the full feature set including supporting image, audio, video and text.
Google announced that Imagen 4, its latest text-to-image model, is now available in paid preview in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Payara announced the launch of Payara Qube, a fully automated, zero-maintenance platform designed to revolutionize enterprise Java deployment.
Google released its new AI-first Colab to all users, following a successful early access period that had a very positive response from the developer community.
Salesforce announced new MuleSoft AI capabilities that enable organizations to build a foundation for secure, scalable AI agent orchestration.
Harness announced the General Availability (GA) of Harness AI Test Automation – an AI-native, end-to-end test automation solution, that's fully integrated across the entire CI/CD pipeline, built to meet the speed, scale, and resilience demanded by modern DevOps.
With AI Test Automation, Harness is transforming the software delivery landscape by eliminating the bottlenecks of manual and brittle testing and empowering teams to deliver quality software faster than ever before.
Wunderkind announced the release of Build with Wunderkind — an API-first integration suite designed to meet brands and developers where they are.
Jitterbit announced the global expansion of its partner program and new Jitterbit University partner curricula.