Practical DevOps, Second Edition - Second Edition

Identifying bottlenecks

As is apparent from the previous example, there is a lot going on for any change that propagates through the pipeline from development to production. It is important for this process to be efficient.

As with all Agile work, keep track of what you are doing, and try to identify problem areas. It is important to continuously improve your processes, which is often referred to as Kaizen, which is a Japanese term. You may discover new technical improvements as times goes on, or simplifications of your processes—"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler," a saying which is often attributed to Albert Einstein.

When everything is working as it should, a commit to the code repository should result in ...