Agile, DevOps, and cloud form a triumvirate with a common theme: Software rules
March 24, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
As software has grown in importance, overshadowing the once-riveting details of chips and hardware, a new language has crept into computing’s vernacular. Where once we talked in silicon yields and gigahertz speeds, we now speak of scrums and sprints, DevOps and Continuous Delivery, and most of all, workload deployments to the elastic cloud’s infrastructure. The genie in the bottle is no longer the secrets in the hardware; it’s the invisible functions of the software.
Even the terminology of software has changed. In the past, we might have declared new development had nothing to do with maintenance of the datacenter’s legacy systems. Development was novel and exciting, a thing apart. Nor did development methodologies have anything to do with production deployments. And certainly an enterprise software project could proceed and have nothing to do with the cloud…
But nearly everyone now knows these old verities are less likely to be true. Most of us would say all these things are now related, and some would say, closely related. I would go a step further. All of these things are the same idea, expressed in different ways. They reflect the importance of the leading ingredient of business survival: new software…
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