Anticipating the future
The future of secure software delivery will focus on AI, simplicity, and interoperability. These changes will be encapsulated within the overall evolution of DevOps.
DevOps is a broad wrapper around people, processes, and technology. CI/CD is an integral part of the technology stack, and continuous delivery is a central process. The 2023 DORA report lists several key outcomes that organizations seek. These outcomes cover a wide variety of measures for organizations to evaluate, including elements from processes, capabilities, and culture.
Among those processes and capabilities are assessments related to AI use. The prominent inclusion of AI makes it clear that the DORA team sees AI as a way to improve overall performance and cultural aspects of an organization, such as burnout and job satisfaction. The idea is that for DevOps to evolve, the components within it must also grow and change to increase velocity. There is evidence, as presented in the DORA...