With the Agile methodology closing on its third decade of use, one of its offshoots – DevOps – is transitioning from the latest technology buzzword to an IT industry standard. The raw numbers reveal the growing popularity of the software development framework – slash – organizational structure. A recent study noted 74 percent of businesses now make some form of DevOps investment.
Does this increase in adoption in the business world mean DevOps is finally here to stay? Will it continue to grow in demand, or is another methodology just around the corner? Leverage these insights to drive your own decisions on the right framework for your software shop.
A recent “State of DevOps” study, highlighted in Information Week, reported that companies with successful DevOps implementations are able to deploy code – new features and bug fixes – 30 times faster than before. Considering the competitive business environment in this era of social media, organizations choose DevOps simply to keep up with the other firms in their sector. Another notable advantage is the 50 percent lower fail rate on deployments!
Less downtime leads to higher productivity, allowing companies to set a more aggressive timeline on their projects. Improved collaboration and communication among your staff also serves to boost employee morale, leading to higher retention and lower HR costs.
Another key indicator of continued maturity of DevOps is the high demand for engineers experienced in the practice. The average salary for these IT professionals is now over $100,000 according to Glassdoor. The staffing website, Indeed notes the DevOps engineer is the hardest role for companies to keep filled.
Expect this trend to continue, as more companies transition to a DevOps model, and require experienced professionals to help achieve a good return on their investment. Even as more processes become automated in DevOps, the demand for talented software development, network engineers, or a mix of the two won’t be going away.
The emerging popularity of DevOps is essentially matching the increase in Cloud usage at businesses. Companies leverage Cloud-based development environments using tools like Docker and Chef to lower costs and make processes work more efficiently. The latter remains one of the reasons organizations are able to increase deployment speed by 30 times, as noted earlier.
Tech industry analysts predict Cloud investment at businesses is expected to grow for at least the next decade. In most cases, these organizations will continue to leverage a DevOps model to get the most out of their Cloud implementation. It is therefore reasonable to assume DevOps will continue to cement itself as the standard when it comes to the organizational structure in the IT world.
Striving for more efficiency in a competitive business environment made companies explore DevOps in the first place and will keep it as an important tool in the arsenal of the top software development organizations in the industry. This undoubtedly means DevOps is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
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Posted on August 18, 2017 Categories News, Software Development Tags Chef, Cloud, DevOps, Docker, Software Development