Improve the Technology

The challenge with writing any book about technology is that it can very quickly become obsolete—just ask two of the authors who wrote DevOps with OpenShift a few years before writing this. Many of the patterns, technologies, and products have evolved since the writing of DevOps with OpenShift, and we fully expect that to continue in the coming years.

Section 6, Build It, Run It, Own It, was focused on the PetBattle technology and how the team would build, run, and own it in 2021. If you're reading this book in 2025, say, we are hopeful that many of the chapters in this book will still hold true, but Section 6 may well have moved on.

It's vital that teams are given ample time, space, and capacity to learn new technologies and experiment, research, and implement new products and frameworks to continuously improve the technology in the solutions they build.

For a long-lived product team, this highlights the importance of great Product...