DevOps is the soup to nuts* concept for true holistic software lifecycle management which brings continuous deployment combined with communication and deep collaborative integrations between engineering and IT infrastructure to stay ahead.
Today started with Kristoff Klockner and Sal Vella covering the devops ideas and then tossing to individual speakers to cover more specifics in 5 minute lightning talks about Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, and of Social Business.
We then met the SMEs in some awesome afternoon tech talk sessions and demos in the dW Live! space ion the expo floor and, of course, we met UrbanCode CEO and Founder Maciej Zawadzki in the Mini-Main tent sessions where he spoke on the topics of: Staying Ahead with a Smarter Approach to DevOps and Going Agile, Growing Agile and Continuously Delivering to Stay Ahead of the Competition
Business innovation is increasingly being delivered via software with rapid pace of market changes driving the need for business agility and providing great customer experience. How can clients establish an enterprise capability for accelerated delivery of software that enables them to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback, improving governance while balancing quality and cost: this is DevOps strategy and capabilities. The best place to start, other than Innovate is by reviewing the new white paper called "DevOps: The IBM approach." You'll find it enlightening for yourself AND your team!
Walker Royce gave us a quick overview of what DevOps is in this fun one minute promo video for IBM Innovate 2013. As he says, it is a horrible buzzword, but as we've found in today's sessions and keynotes at IBM Innovate (and in the snippets to be shared later), DevOps really is a holistic and critical piece to staying ahead in your business:
*soup to nuts is an American English idiom conveying the meaning of "from beginning to end".
