DevOps World, 2020

Five Reasons Why DevOps is a Total Failure
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2. Savinder Puri DevOps Evangelist, Zensar Technologies, UK Engineering (Computers), Class of 2000 Ambassador at DevOps Institute & CDF Macro photography enthusiast Reiki Grandmaster & Angelic Healer
3. Warning: This is a satirical talk, presented in a quirky, anti-fact postulation style. Please appreciate it in the right spirit and be sure to be entertained and educated! So, here goes...
4. You must have heard the horror stories of DevOps...
5. You must have heard the horror stories... Let’s look at one such relic...
6. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 6 Elite performers perform horribly as compared to low performers Reference: DORA’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report, 2019
7. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 7 People across the world are now speaking out...
8. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 8 “Elite Performers” are the worst effected by DevOps...
9. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 9 Elite performers perform poorly as compared to low performers
10. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 10 Their “Change Fail Rate” is also really really low
11. There are 1000+ proof points that DevOps fails... Let me present 5 today.
12. 1. DevOps has not delivered any business value
13. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 13 Delivering... “100's of microservices 1000's of daily production changes 10,000’s virtual instances 100,000's customer interactions/min 1,000,000's customers 1,000,000,000's time series metrics” Leading to... “10,000,000,000's hours streamed” Supported by... “10's Ops Engineers 0 Network Ops Centres” Source: How Netflix thinks of DevOps
14. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 14 Each of the Unicorns show such gory results!
15. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 15 Its hard to find any success stories elsewhere either...
16. 1. DevOps has not delivered any business value 2. The pandemic has further exposed its lack of growth
17. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 17 https://devops.com/devops-agility-shines-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/ https://dzone.com/articles/how-is-devops-surviving-corona https://itchronicles.com/dev-ops/how-devops-can-benefit-your-remote-team-during-covid-19/ https://www.wfmj.com/story/42292044/devops-market-to-remain-robust-as-covid-19-leads-to-growth-in- digitization-devops-market-size-share-challenges-and-opportunities https://www.veritis.com/blog/how-devops-boost-business-continuity-during-covid-19/
18. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 18 3. There are not really any tools to support it as well
19. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 19 https://digital.ai/periodic-table-of-devops-tools
20. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 20 https://www.sonatype.com/referencearchitecturetestdrive Nor is there any comprehensive reference architecture
21. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 21 https://pixelcrayonreviews.blogspot.com/2019/09/java-vs-net-who-will-reign-in-future.html 4. It’s limited to the standard Java/.Net/new age stacks
22. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 22 Disclaimer: This list is for illustrative purposes only and is based purely on my research. I’m sure there are other competent products in each category and many other categories.
23. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 23 https://pixelcrayonreviews.blogspot.com/2019/09/java-vs-net-who-will-reign-in-future.html 4. And it does not even pay well
24. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 24 “Site Reliability Engineers and DevOps specialists remain among the highest paid individual contributor roles” https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020
25. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 25 https://marketing.dice.com/pdf/2020/Dice_2020_Tech_Salary_Report.pdf “DevOps specialists and site reliability engineers are among the highest paid, most experienced developers most satisfied with their jobs”
26. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 26 https://pixelcrayonreviews.blogspot.com/2019/09/java-vs-net-who-will-reign-in-future.html 5. The carrier path is also not well defined
27. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 27 In fact, no one is even asking that question! https://www.quora.com/How-is-DevOps-Engineer-as-a-career-path-How-is-career-advancement-for-a-DevOps-engineer
28. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 28 There is just this one, lousy book, available on Amazon worldwide! (pardon my little advertising plug ☺)
29. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 29 https://pixelcrayonreviews.blogspot.com/2019/09/java-vs-net-who-will-reign-in-future.html 5. The carrier path is also not well defined Hopefully, this has helped you confirm what a total failure DevOps is!