Implementing Modern DevOps

Traditional release management

Through the years, companies have pushed the development of their IT systems out of their business core processes: retail shop business was retail and not software but reality has kicked in very quickly with companies such as Amazon or Alibaba, which can partially attribute their success to keeping their IT systems in the core of the business.

A few years ago, companies used to outsource their entire IT systems, trying to push the complexity aside from the main business in the same way that companies outsource the maintenance of the offices where they are. This has been successful for quite a long time as the release cycles of the same applications or systems were long enough (a couple of times a year) to be ...