Source: Damon Edwards
neers must think about the system as a whole instead of just focusing on auto-
mating a component of the system. System thinking can be a foreign topic to a
silo-based organization.
Another area we look at is the SDLC practices. Enterprises planning to move to
frequent deployments need to embrace lean principles and move away from
traditional waterfall or immature scrum approaches. Governance is another
important area. The old method of governing with an iron fist need to give
away to baking controls, policy, and governance into the code. The days of
holding multiple weekly review boards for architecture, security, and gover-
nance must be put to bed. These processes and mindsets simply don’t work in
the era of continuous deployment. In this new age, we must trust in our auto-
mation and institute proactive and continuous monitoring to check for ongo-
ing security and compliance. Manual review by humans just doesn’t scale when
multiple teams are able to perform push-button deployments. We must audit
ourselves in real-time in the new world.
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