Understanding why organizations move to DevOps
In Chapter 1, Introducing DevOps and Agile, we discussed the goals of DevOps, as well as some of the values of DevOps and the challenges that DevOps will help us solve. What about why organizations move to DevOps? This is a question we will now look at in more detail.
According to the 2019 DORA State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops), top performers in DevOps deliver code faster, have fewer bugs, and resolve incidents more quickly. Some of the highlights from that report include the following statistics backing up the previous statement:
- 208 times more frequent code deployments
- 106 times faster lead time from commit to deploy
- 2,604 times faster time to recover from incidents
- 7 times lower change failure rate
Organizations that embrace DevOps practices simply get more done. By utilizing a single team comprising cross-functional members all working in collaboration, DevOps organizations...
