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DevOps Paradox

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

DevOps Paradox

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

DevOps promises to break down silos, uniting organizations to deliver high quality output in a cross-functional way. In reality it often results in confusion and new silos: pockets of DevOps practitioners fight the status quo, senior decision-makers demand DevOps paint jobs without committing to true change. Even a clear definition of what DevOps is remains elusive. In DevOps Paradox, top DevOps consultants, industry leaders, and founders reveal their own approaches to all aspects of DevOps implementation and operation. Surround yourself with expert DevOps advisors. Viktor Farcic draws on experts from across the industry to discuss how to introduce DevOps to chaotic organizations, align incentives between teams, and make use of the latest tools and techniques. With each expert offering their own opinions on what DevOps is and how to make it work, you will be able to form your own informed view of the importance and value of DevOps as we enter a new decade. If you want to see how real DevOps experts address the challenges and resolve the paradoxes, this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index
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Packt

Future technologies

Nirmal Mehta: Part of my job is to look at future technologies, and nowadays I'm doing that for the cloud. At a certain point, it really hit me hard about the cloud.

Let me tell you. It was when I saw a slide at AWS re:Invent; it was just a bar chart, and on the x-axis was 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014—the years; and on the y-axis, it wasn't new services, but instead it was the year-over-year percentage increase in features that AWS will provide. The first year on that chart, it was 50%. They added another 50%, so the next one was 100%. Then it was 500%. The following one was 1,000%, and after that, it was 4,000%.

If you're an internal IT organization and you're building services, and you see that graph, and I'm selling the cloud and the ability to use cloud services to compose and build your own applications, how do you resist?

It's pretty clear to me that Amazon, Azure, and Google are making their way vertically. They want to vertically...