Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

The three ways model

The three ways model is based on the ideas of Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford ^[8], and other lean thinkers such as Michael Orzen ^[9]. The model distills the concept of DevOps into three primary principles, or ways:

• Systems thinking and workflow optimization
• Amplifying feedback loops
• Culture of continuous experimentation and learning

Systems thinking implies that the development team takes a holistic approach to software: in addition to tackling software development, teams are also responsible for operating/managing the systems that the software gets deployed to and establishing baselines for not only the target system's behavior but also for the expected behavior of other systems that depend on it:

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