While individual buzzwords will come in and out of fashion, the ideas at the heart of DevOps aren\u2019t going anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Like any good buzzword, DevOps may mean different things to different people. There are several good definitions of DevOps out there. My favorite definition comes from\u00a0@IanColdwater<\/a>, who\u00a0defined DevOps in terms a teenager would understand<\/a>:<\/p>\n Devops is a set of ideas about how process, tools, and people can engineer software better<\/em><\/p>\n I love this definition because it doesn\u2019t focus on existing assumptions about what \u201cdevelopment\u201d and \u201coperations\u201d are or should be \u2014 the point of DevOps isn\u2019t to stick with those old definitions, but instead to evolve our own ideas about how we can create software in ever-better ways.<\/p>\n This evolution isn\u2019t simply implementing automation: instead these ideas involve changes in people\u2019s roles, process definitions, and the tools which are used.<\/p>\n I can easily remember a time before I heard the words \u201cdigital transformation,\u201d and I feel that term is already starting to lose popularity. There may be similar fatigue around the term \u201cDevOps.\u201d In two years, we may find ourselves using that word less. But even if this is the case, I\u2019m confident that in two years we will still be building on the set of ideas central to DevOps about how to engineer software better.<\/p>\n This set of ideas includes focal points of being customer centric, maintaining a steady flow of work, and reducing toil. Work in these areas improves code quality, reduces time to market, and focuses individual contributors on value-added-work which many find more enjoyable than repeatable tasks. These results are attractive both to leadership and to employees across the organization.<\/p>\n Even if the specific word \u201cDevOps\u201d falls out of fashion, the set of ideas it embraces are well positioned to stay at the heart of technical initiatives and efforts for well beyond the next two years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Enjoyed the topic? Have a relevant anecdote? Disagree with the author? Leave your two cents on this post in the comments below, and our favourite response will win a $50 Amazon gift card. The competition closes two weeks from the date of publication, and the winner will be announced in the next Simple Talk newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While individual buzzwords will come in and out of fashion, the ideas at the heart of DevOps aren\u2019t going anywhere.\u00a0 Like any good buzzword, DevOps may mean different things to different people. There are several good definitions of DevOps out there. My favorite definition comes from\u00a0@IanColdwater, who\u00a0defined DevOps in terms a teenager would understand: Devops……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47125,53],"tags":[95506],"coauthors":[61458],"class_list":["post-87447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-featured","tag-automate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87449,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87447\/revisions\/87449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=87447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Commentary Competition<\/h4>\n