DevOps and Cloud: Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Paul Gillin.

If you aren’t doing DevOps now, chances are you soon will be. Results from the field show that DevOps is not only a more productive way to develop software, but also the resulting code is of higher quality and is delivered more quickly. In today’s business environment, who can afford to wait six months for new applications?

DevOps is an evolution of agile software development, which demands frequent releases and iterative feedback so that applications move steadily toward the business goal, nurtured by collaboration between developers and users. If you’ve ever waited months for your IT organization to deliver an application, only to find that it’s horribly different from what was requested, you know why this idea has appeal…

In a DevOps environment, code is deployed continuously to production for feedback and bug discovery. Release cycles may be daily or even more often. A survey of more than 9,200 software developers by Puppet Labs last year found that DevOps organizations deploy code 30 times more frequently than practitioners of more traditional development techniques. What’s more, they experienced 50 percent fewer failures…

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