people, but companies that embrace the chaos to drive future growth will flourish eventually.
The idea of automation is not at all new. However, the ability to bring infrastructure easily
and seamlessly is a new concept. Here enters DevOps (seriously, even in an article?), which
helps to program infrastructure easily, so that teams can develop the software and operate its
environment instantaneously. Soon companies will continue to push faster, software based
methods when it comes to infrastructure.
DevOps reduces the time to deploy a feature to production. As this transformation
happens, systems will be more risk tolerant. Any of the changes made
are less likely to leave a negative impact on the system and the
entire production time will reduce to few minutes, rather
than weeks or days.
With each passing day, DevOps is eliminating the
role of operations. Previously, a big monolithic
system used to take years to overhaul.
Nowadays, the time to change or switch out
the technology stack is taking only a few
days in order to accomplish. One can
expect to see more pronounced changes
in how companies look at their legacy
systems, and as a result, the role of
operations will be eliminated
completely by next few years.
DevOps ready tools are now seeing
much more adaption and out of the
box functionality, which has led to
decreased traditional silos between
developers and operations. With teams
focusing more on continuous delivery
and improvement, the accountability
and ownership from developer teams to
build and run their solutions increases.
The next trend to look for is big data and
DevOps coming together in order to create
predictive analysis throughout the delivery
cycle. DevOps can automate processes and
configuration. In these pipelines, if an organization
suddenly starts creating a ton of data and applies
machine learning to that, then the failure can be predicted
easily and areas that need optimization can be identified faster.
Now organizations are emphasizing on shifting-left of more and more of their
software delivery practices. As a part of the trend, which will continue to increase, activities
that were traditionally done after deployment and production, or things that are typically done
later in the development or release process, are now moving earlier to the pipeline.
So, here are few trends that will affect the industry to a large extent. However, one of the
biggest trends of DevOps is not just a focus on engaging and implementing these practices in
an organization, but a comprehensive adoption of the DevOps culture. Those enterprises that
adopt the shared responsibilities, authorized autonomous teams, learning environments, and
have the can do attitude where DevOps thrives will witness the benefits.
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