What is DevOps really about
In the past 4 years, I have been helping many companies of all sizes and budgets to integrate, switch or migrate to a DevOps philosophy.
Many of them didn’t understand in the beginning why they wanted to start using a DevOps approach, but since the word was hip and “everybody is starting to use it”, they wanted it.
As we went thru the assessment process, looking on what needed to be changed, improved, automated or left as it was originally, one single aspect of their processes became clear and was common between all of the companies: they were always suspicious that something was wrong when they were deploying their software, or scaling, or doing pretty much anything. This problem was critical in their day-to-day operations, since every task that involved a change took much more time to be put in production due to the manual double and triple check, and even then, the overall sensation...