System Initiative

Post from Adam Jacob framing up the successes of DevOps strategies in the last decade, and where it has fallen down.

I still believe that everyone in technology deserves to work in a culture of collaboration and trust, deploying software hundreds or thousands of times a day, while achieving world-class stability, availability, and security. If we want it to come true - not to be consigned to history as another quaint idea co-opted by industry - we have to start breaking the rules of how the system is designed.

This stat on deploys is not good.

But after 14 years of effort - 88% of the respondents to the State of DevOps report in 2022 are unable to deploy more frequently than once a week, often once every six months.

Being able to quickly, confidently, and efficiently move software through your environments from people building solutions to customers is a core competency and strategic differentiator. Doing that weekly, or monthly, is a recipe for failure.