The DevOps Phenomenon -- Abstract

The DevOps Phenomenon

Continuous Integration and Security 

in the Internet Age

by Kevin Eberman

Abstract
This book is about DevOps. DevOps integrates previously misaligned concerns: Development and Operations. Development teams are driven to continually add new features and functionality to the application. These changes cause instability, which imperils the prime directive of Operations teams—keeping the applications running. DevOps is the convergence between Development and Operations, making the Internet, how it is developed, and how it operates, more efficient, effective, and secure. Amazing convergences are emerging between science, business, culture, and politics; DevOps is one of them. “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” will no longer be a hallmark of inane comparisons, but a harbinger of new ways of seeing and doing.
The Internet has been the engine of my professional career. I have 20 years of experience in San Francisco and Cambridge at software companies that have helped make the Internet what it is. This book, my story, my DevOps trip, is a microcosm of the Internet during this epoch of the Information Revolution.

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it!”

Audience
Readers of Wired, Quartz and InfoWorld.
Ops people, full-stack developers,
software executives, and product managers.
Me.

Comparisons
DevOps for Developers Michael Hitermann. Apress, 2012
The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr. IT Revolution Press, 2013
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation Jez Humble. Addison-Wesley Signature Series, 2010
The Painted Word Thomas Wolfe. Picador, 1975

Kevin Eberman 

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