Two years ago I didn’t think DevOps applied to my company. I was aware of the buzz word, but when I took a cursory look at a few articles about DevOps, they seemed to be all about web applications and web services. My company primarily develops firmware and enterprise software. In our world, production is owned by our customers or even our customers’ customers. We don’t deploy to a production environment that we own and operate – we just post new installers. As for frequent releases, our product managers weren’t asking for them.
Enterprise software and continuous delivery
While agile development practices have become more and more mainstream, some agile concepts are still prone to a “sure, but that doesn’t apply to me” reaction. One of these concepts is the principle of frequent or continuous deliveries.
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