The Case for DevOps

We’re long past the days in which a single, monolithic "IT Department" can address the entirety of an organizational and employee technology needs. More than ever, enterprises need to quickly and continuously deliver new functionality while concurrently paying attention to security, stability, interoperability, and reliability.

If that seems like a tall order today, you're spot-on.

As a result, you may have heard the term DevOps—a portmanteau of development and operations. If you haven't, then there's a good chance that you will in the near future. But what is it? What are its benefits? And what about its limitations?

In this series of three-part series, I'll cover its background, some of the challenges that its practitioners face, and a cautious look at its future.