Software development has gotten tricky. If you have been in the DevOps game in the past few years, then you have noticed a drumbeat of "shift left" echoing across your brainpan. You can't escape it — it's at conferences, in blogs, and on numerous podcasts. We know how to write tests before writing code — boom, we shifted left! We added acceptance testing in our CI system — notch one up for another shift-left win.
Yet, with all this shifting left, there is a whisper in the wind (it may be hard to hear), but it is not a new sound. It is a more of a nagging reminder of a truth we knew long ago — it's the faint reverberation call to shift right.