Modern Dev+Ops is allowing
organizations to meet the evolving
needs of their customers faster and
more consistently by closing the gap
between dev and ops functions.
DevOps has changed the world. Amazon and the
internet changed how software was delivered,
from a disk in a box bought in a store to available
digitally as a service built on AWS. But it was
DevOps that changed the update cycles of that
software from months or years to days and
brought Dev+Ops closer together.
Companies of all shapes and sizes have tossed aside waterfall product
management cycles and embraced agile and DevOps for the promise of
faster innovation, improved security, performance, and resilience, as well
as happier developers and customers. But even with all of the benefits of
DevOps, it isn't perfect. DevOps came into existence before developing
and hosting applications in the cloud was a standard practice, and though
it has been around for a long time, it is still largely open to interpretation
from one organization to the other. For example, many organizations still
consider DevOps to be a dedicated team, and in other cases, it can mean
developers doing all of the operations work. As technology has evolved, so
has our definition of DevOps. We call this approach Modern Dev+Ops, and
it is centered around bringing developers and operations closer by sharing
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