Sharing, Shadowing, & Evolving

The incidence of DevOps teams is on the rise according to reports, but the industry remains divided on whether a DevOps team should even exist. Some are wary of creating additional silos, or are of the opinion that DevOps is a methodology that everyone should subscribe to in an organisation; others point to DevOps teams as an effective way of transitioning to a new way of working.

Understand how sys admins, developers, testers, security pros and others blend their expertise into collaborative DevOps roles and responsibilities.

Please understand, dear Reader, that I write this with positive intention. I'm not here to impugn any person or organization. I want to talk about some decisions and their natural consequences. These consequences seem negative to me and after reading this post you may agree. When an established company faced a technology innovation, they often create a new team to adopt and exploit that innovation. During my career, I've seen this pattern play out with microcomputers, client/server architecture, open systems, web development, agile development, cloud architecture, NoSQL, and DevOps.

The mission of a DevOps team is to eliminate itself.

The field of DevOps is now in its 11th year and still relatively new. It was not long ago that the job title "DevOps engineer" did not exist. But like many things in technology, radical change can happen in flash. Within the past few years and 53 percent of respondents to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report saying they had recently hired or plan to hire someone for that title. Read on to learn why this relatively new DevOps job title is here to stay!

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Most devopsdays events are a combination of curated talks and self organized conversations. The self organized content is known as “open spaces”. Open Spaces give attendees the opportunity to talk about anything they’d like. A person might suggest a topic they want to learn about, or one they feel like they can help others with. The topics range widely, from highly technical, to pure culture, to board games for networking.

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