Wikimedia CommonsThe software industry has for some time now been telling us that the application is ‘always-on’. People used to actually ‘install software’ and legend has it that they actually used to use what was called a floppy disk to perform that action. In the always on age, the mechanics of our software architectures must also be continuous. Because of this we find firms like Electric Cloud specifically describing themselves as developer-to-operations (DevOps) release automation and continuous delivery specialists. Right now, business leaders lack an easy way to understand whether a particular release will actually deliver the business value they were hoping for.”Drinking from a firehose

Source: Forbes September 08, 2017 00:56 UTC