Guest View: Rise of the machines: Power brokers in DevOps bonding!
By Bola Rotibi
July 1, 2010 —
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To some people, developers are ingenious innovative software generators. To others, they’re code hacking. Either way, the world they know is changing, and their role must evolve to take on more responsibility and be more accountable for the code and applications they create.
One of the more pressing challenges facing software development and delivery teams occurs when software is released and running in production. Deployment, release management and maintenance issues (especially in resolving problems once applications are working out in the field) are the bane of both the software production teams (the developers) and the operation teams alike. The problems are getting harder, not easier, with each technological and platform advance.
Knowing this hardship, you’d be hard pressed not to think that relationships between the developer and operations teams, called the DevOps bond, would be more in-tune to their respective requirements, shared challenges and goals, and be in general a lot more collaborative. Nothing can be further from the truth. The disconnect that exists between many development and operations teams is both legendary and ingrained.
The "throw it over the wall" attitude, a key culprit to the strained DevOps relationship, partly stems from the lack of deep and connected insight into deployed assets, process transactions and system configurations, as well as patches and management policies that exist in many production environments.
But, when all is said and done, the real culprit at the center of the breakdown in the DevOps relationship is a shameful disregard on both sides for the communication and connections that need to happen in order to understand the dynamics of an application deployed out in the field, and the impact of changes made either to the application or the field environment. A lack of knowledge and insight along with the failure to manage the expectations on both sides has resulted in time, money and other precious resources being wasted in resolving problems that arise. In truth, these are fundamental failings that underlie most of the woes of software development, delivery and the ongoing maintenance once an application or code component is deployed out in the field.
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