Best Of 2024: DevOps: What's The End Goal?
DevOps.com, Thursday, January 2nd, 2025
In high tech, we have a penchant for not actually having an end goal. We have interim goals but no grand 'this is what we need to do.'
And yet, every space inevitably has a 'this is the reason' attached. So what should the overarching goal of DevOps be?
We started out with streamlining processes as the goal, and quickly morphed into efficiency and being more responsive-all worthy goals, but it is the nature of both technologists and business people (for very different reasons) to not stop when the goal is reached. We went through several more iterations that all basically pulled more under the DevOps umbrella, and then settled on automation. AI will continue this automation trend, but to what end?