DevOps

As more and more organizations embrace Digital Transformation, they also adopt a DevOps culture in order to be able to produce new applications and services at high velocity. That’s because a culture that encourages shared responsibility, transparency, and fast feedback helps shrink the gaps between teams and therefore also speeds up processes.

Coined by Patrick Debois back in 2007, the term ‘DevOps’ refers to bringing Development and Operations together, thus extending Agile development as a philosophy to enhance the software delivery process as a whole.

Both SysOps (system operations) and DevOps (development operations) are two central components of Cloud Computing, one of the leading technologies of the last decade. As some organizations find it difficult to distinguish between the two, we have decided to cover their similarities and differences in detail.

DevOps is the process of integrating development and operations, while DevSecOps is a subset of that which focuses on security. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive, but they do have different goals.

As discussions, approaches, and practices only now begin to take flight, you might be tempted to think that the DevOps philosophy is quite new. In reality, however, this methodology first emerged back in 2007, when a frustrated consultant, project manager, and agile practitioner, Patrick Debois, got fed up with the separation between software development and IT operations and the inefficiencies it raised.

The DevOps philosophy refers to enabling organizations to deliver applications and services at high velocity, meaning improving products faster than using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes would allow.

Sooo… How does Netflix think about DevOps? Easy! They don’t. The end.

While in the past, when browsing the internet, it was common to be met with messages like “We apologize for any inconvenience. Our website is now down for maintenance,” today, thanks to the modern practice of Continuous Delivery (CD), we can keep our servers online as we patch and update our products.

The app and software development cycle often pertain to several steps, along with time and effort. To reduce the time invested in software development, companies are taking up the help of DevOps Engineers.

If we think about the evolution of software development, we’ll distinguish 2 turning points: the introduction of the waterfall methodology and the shift towards the agile methodology.