DevOps is an increasingly popular organizational philosophy that boosts collaboration between development and operations staff—perhaps even combining them into a single department—and prescribes constant integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of new code, with software features being rolled out incrementally every few days or weeks rather than unleashed as huge, monolithic updates. In theory, it makes development more nimble and cuts down on internal strife.
Of course, theory doesn’t always play out in practice. We spoke to people who’ve helped roll out DevOps in the real world to find out the philosophy’s dark side—both problems inherent to it and ways in which its implementers often fall short or screw up. We hope these cautionary tales will help you go into any rollout with your eyes open.
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