DevOps in the next ten years

Viktor Farcic: Where do you see DevOps going in the next ten years?

Kohsuke Kawaguchi: I wish I had a better sense of the future to say interesting things about it. Like I've been saying, I would say the obvious direction is more automation.

There will be more demand for software and technology all over the world. For example, every time I have to go through the airport and show my driver's license to authenticate myself to the system, I think, this should be a solvable problem. So, yeah, there will be more software, and there will be more automation.

I guess I just can't get away from automation! Beyond that, I think data and machine learning should play a central role in the way we develop software as well. Those technologies have been disrupting so many things, it's silly to think our own profession is immune from that. But I don't know how quickly those things will happen. If I had that magic 8-ball,...