This is the first installment in a series of blog posts on this topic.
Years have passed since the software world first gasped at the high-velocity achievements of Netflix, Etsy, Flickr, and others, watching in awe as they shipped features in less time than other companies could even begin to start planning them. The secrets to their success were collectively characterized as “DevOps” - a new approach to delivering software that focused intensely on continuous integration, continuous delivery, and breaking down barriers between engineering and operations teams in order to ship faster, and with less risk.