How DevOps Can Accelerate the Cloud Application Lifecycle
February 11, 2014
Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.
As I wrote in my last column, it’s clear that cloud computing enables, and imposes, enormous change in applications. In that article, I focused on the technical changes cloud computing is forcing on application architecture — all designed to support the increased scale and load variability, higher performance expectation and changed pricing that cloud computing imposes.
What I didn’t address was another traditional application assumption that cloud computing is upending: The application lifecycle. Specifically, the cloud requires a significantly faster rhythm of application management, which will impose change on IT organizations.
On the face of it, it may not be obvious why the technical capability of cloud computing would transform IT organizations and their processes…
However, the critical foundation for the technical capability that cloud computing offers, automation, also requires accelerating the application lifecycle…
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