I Don't Wanna

thoughts on building quality software in the 21st century

There was a time in software development when specialization was necessary. In How We Test Software at Microsoft, we told the story of the first tester at Microsoft - who was hired to run games written in Basic through the new compiler. At that point a divide between test and development was forged (lightly at first).

Years later, The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (and more directly, his DevOps Handbook) talks about the similar divide between developers and operations specialists and shows how breaking down those walls accelerates and improves software delivery.

The Wall

I’m not alone in my hatred of using the term DevOps to describe a role within an organization. DevOps isn’t a thing people do, it’s a way people work. It started as a term to describe the cooperation of Developers and Operations team - famously discussed in this 2009 presentation - 10+ Deploys Per Day - Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr.