13. Integrating Azure DevOps
In the previous chapter, you learned about big data eventing and its relationship with Azure's Event Hubs and Stream Analytics services. Software development is a complex undertaking comprising multiple processes and tools, and involving people from different departments. They all need to come together and work in a cohesive manner. With so many variables, the risks are high when you are delivering to end customers. One small omission or misconfiguration might lead to the application coming crashing down. This chapter is about adopting and implementing practices that reduce this risk considerably and ensure that high-quality software can be delivered to the customer over and over again.
Before getting into the details of DevOps, here is a list of the problems faced by software companies that DevOps addresses:
- Rigid organizations that don't welcome change
- Time-consuming processes
- Isolated teams working in silos
- Monolithic...
