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Born out of the difficulties of a challenging data migration project and getting siloed teams to work together better, DevOps has evolved
into a movement to facilitate software development and its implementation, while improving reliability and increasing security
While the process of combining teams is hardly seamless, when done successfully, DevOps delivers significant benefits across businesses
whether they are large or small.DevOps combines the words Development and Operations, with the term originating in 2009 and attributed to
philosophical approach to software development and operations grew from his experience the year prior with a data migration project for the
Belgian government, where the project developers and the system administrators were simply not on the same page
After this, Debois created the aforementioned conference to share this experience, and a movement was born, which came to be known by its
still popular Twitter hashtag #DevOps.Linguistics aside, DevOps goes by various definitions, and in the end, is just a little different at
In general, DevOps is a term that describes a collection of principles, tools and even culture that endeavors to unify the development of
developed at a faster pace than software is traditionally created
With DevOps, the usual barriers between the development and operations groups at an organization are completely removed, as these two
traditionally separate teams get merged into a single group.This way, engineers can work on a product throughout its lifecycle, and not just
during development to then hand it off to others with less expertise, and less knowledge of what happened in the earlier stages of the
In some cases, a third team, Security, also gets combined with DevOps, and this triple combination gets referred to as a related clipped
software development, and its implementation, has been a laborious, manual-based process which is unsurprisingly sluggish
stack and tooling to increase efficiency and reliability in software development
These tools also facilitate the deployment of code, which can be done from within the same team without the involvement of others, and this
also contributes to the rapid pace of innovation and deployment of this DevOps model.DevOps engineers involve themselves with more than just
Allstate is a Fortune 500 company, with the origins of this insurance giant dating back to 1931
the latest tools to be able to work with a greater level of efficiency
Simultaneously, there was also a second goal of enabling better self-service for its customers, so that they would be able to make claims,
recent focus has been on customer retention, and differentiated software features
Through the teamwork and common values that are central to the DevOps approach, the company has focused on product development on its app,
and keeping it current with the ability to deploy the latest features rapidly.On the horizon, Allstate also plans to continue using the
From the significant number of Allstate DevOps jobs currently listed, Allstate clearly continues to embrace this approach.Speed and
scaleWith the inherent advantages of speed of deployment, better reliability, the ability to scale, and integrated security, it is not
surprising that many organizations have embraced the DevOps approach
A recent survey of business technology decision makers was used to create the 2018 State of DevOps report
Some useful statistics to highlight include:DevOps is popular with a third of respondents already using it, and 35% planning to implement it
are inherent advantages of DevOps, it is still a tool that needs to be applied selectively to the correct situation
folks were on different teams for a reason originally, and they do not automatically share the same skillset just because we push their
desks closer together.Teams do not necessarily want to work with each other, and it takes time for this more modern DevOps approach to bed
in, with a healthy dose of mutual respect needed for them to get along towards a common goal, and less concern about which of the former
teams are running the show
This type of transition does not commonly occur overnight, at least with most organizations.Born out of the difficulties of a challenging
data migration project and getting siloed teams to work together better, DevOps has evolved into a movement to facilitate software
development and its implementation, while improving reliability and increasing security
While the process of combining teams is hardly seamless, when done successfully, DevOps delivers significant benefits across businesses
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