Cloud and devops empower users, developers alike

April 28, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

The idea of devops is very simple. It automates the notion of agile, which provides the ability to remove the traditional latency around the application development lifecycle. The advantage is that developers can make changes, then test, integrate, and deploy those changes automagically. The cloud provides more of an advantage for the devops model.

Since the applications are centrally deployed and managed, they could change several times a day, adding both fixes and enhancements. While this kind of freedom and automation empowers developers, users also benefit. Indeed, as users discover issues with the cloud-hosted software or offer suggestions for improvement, they can communicate requests to developers, then correct and enhance the issues in hours or days, not months or even years…

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