Sabah Parveen on DevOps

ABSTRACT Depending and working on lean and agile practices, DevOps means end-to-end automation in software development and delivery. Sabah Parveen says DevOps is the new tech-word that is creating buzz in the software field, it has different interpretations for different people. "DevOps is the software development strategy that bridges the gap between the development and operational team". New challenges always show up to the modern software companies that usually deal with system requirements and quality software issues. DevOps is the way to help the companies to cope with such challenges effectively. It merges the traditional software role and the work in order to enhance the communication between deployment rate and quality. The DevOps is designed to introduce a new set of rules, tools, and practices that offer better and more effective ways to deal with upcoming and existing Challenges related to software development. DevOps is a model that combines the development team and the operational team so that the deployment and quality of software maintain at an agile rate.

Sabah Parveen explains that the release of new products was infrequent and took years for deployment in the market by following the traditional approach for developing software. Every update/release can have as many as hundreds or more new features and improvements. Since the release was infrequent, the user has to wait for a longer time for the new release which creates a sense of disappointment to the user. However, it is not guaranteed that the new release line will work as thought, bugs can be found that can create another problem for the user to use the product. Which ultimately puts all the companies Under great stress and with great turmoil, an emergency release is produced and put into production ( often achieved by skipping tests), which may got many bugs, and with repeated processes for quick release, which result in more frustration, stress, and disappointment. It also causes us to miss business opportunities because of lack of uncertainty in development and operational teams in IT companies.

DevOps is a better way... As shared by Sabah Parveen "CIO's who haven't transformed their teams capabilities by 2020 will be displaced." The DevOps methodology came into existence to wipe out the differences that were arising in the agile and waterfall model approach in developing the software or products. Waterfall, the Agile methodology are a thing of the past now, to tackle and achieve advantage in the completion one need to develop DevOps methodology for development and delivery. • New releases are frequent • Bugs are fixed rapidly • New business opportunities are sought with gusto and confidence • New features are released, revised, and improved with rapid iterations • Development and deployment is faster than ever. In a study it was developed that the company was able to provide a new software feature in 11 sec.. DevOps provide the strategic advantage to companies to that of traditional way of designing software development. DevOps allow the oriented working connection among improvement and IT activities and at the same time expanding the dependability, steadiness, flexibility and security of the creative environment. DevOps is centred to accompanying objectives: • Develop an environment of coordination effort. • Agile to deploy client input. • Products can be easily changeable for different platforms by DevOps. • Mechanize conventional operational and improvement duties. • Use stages to accomplish situations. DevOps Methodology DevOps is the practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating on rapidly changing systems at large scale. To make it clear that DevOps is not the technology but a methodology which is built and opted by IT firms to develop the software products and deploy them in a fast and accurate way. We can also define the DevOps as "practice of operation and development engineers participating together in the entire software life cycle". It is also categorized by operation staff making use of many techniques of development work. The practice of combining the philosophies and tools of software development and software operation staff is DevOps. In 2008 Agile Toronto conference by developers and technologists Patrick Debois and Andrew Shafer were first who introduce the term DevOps.