DevOps Metrics

Focus: Devops

THIRTY YEARS AGO, Jim Gray noted that “A way to improve availability is to install proven hardware and software, and then leave it alone.”1 For companies that provide services over the Internet, “leaving it alone” isn’t an option. Such service providers must continually make changes to increase the service’s value, such as adding features and improving performance. At Netflix, engineers push ne...

DevOps and Its Practices

Dimensions of DevOps

DevOps has been identified as an important aspect in the continuous deployment paradigm in practitioner communities and academic research circles. However, little has been presented to describe and formalize what it constitutes. The absence of such understanding means that the phenomenon will not be effectively communicated and its impact not understood in those two communities. This study inve...

DevOps for Digital Enterprises

DevOps is fast assuming greater importance in deciding the agility of an enterprise. A robust DevOps setup is crucial for successful agile delivery and minimal risks. It greatly optimizes release management costs and team productivity, resulting in reduced time to market. At the same time, DevOps enables organizations to make rapid product releases with increased quality and manage customers’ e...

Simplifying the DevOps Adoption Process

DevOps is a new tendency in business and information technology alignment. The purpose of DevOps is bridging the gap between the development and operations. Several sources claim that DevOps is a new style of work. Many successful DevOps introduction attempts and also many problems in adoption of this style of work have been discussed. This paper reports on research results in facilitating the ...