A Panacea Called Devops

A radical intervention is needed to uplift the ailing current software development practices and why is DevOps being touted as the key to better software and touted as the panacea

- Shrikanth G

DevOps is not so much a destination as a journey, a kind of fitness program that can help you transform your business into a world-class competitor. like any fitness program, it will be difficult and, at times, painful”

– Amy DeMartine, Senior Analyst , Forrester research

DevOps. This is the hottest tech term in town now. Enterprise computing is at the center of a major disruption and a nexus of forces are ushering in significant changes and separating leaders from laggards. The leaders obviously are the early movers of tech and have already started reaping in the harvest. In the past we have seen major disruptions like cloud to big data – that has opened up a new premise in solving business problems by using a new style of IT.

In that order, as we look at the last few months, one of the trends that is getting heightened momentum is DevOps. Lets try and decode what exactly is DevOps and why it will play a significant role in shaping enterprise IT in the days ahead.

Digital consumers are driving growth within all business segments. These smart customers have high expectations and will switch loyalties if their interactions with digital media do not meet these expectations. The best way to address the increasing velocity, variety and volume of such customer needs is DevOps because it focuses on faster feature deployments to production. It helps us accelerate the feature deployment process with increased automation using open source or license tools at every stage of delivery lifecycle which includes development, QA, on-demand environment provisioning, production deployment, and gathering newer requirements to make applications more customer-centric. DevOps brings together all these organizations, thereby making process of software deployment very lean.

THE GREAT DIVIDE: DEV & OPS