Last year, I put together a few thoughts on what I saw as the emerging DevOps trends for 2019. As we enter a new year and decade, I thought it might be useful to do the same for 2020. A common theme in this year’s trends concerns the way in which firms are dealing with delivering services at scale in the cloud, which I think could be a grand trend for the decade – one I wanted to highlight from the offset – but for now, here are four trends for the year ahead.
1. Site Reliability Engineering
As more and more companies leverage the cloud to host their services, how do they manage large user bases around the globe without a large 24x7 Operations team? Embracing failure and observing standard setters such as Google, Netflix, and Spotify, firms are looking to site reliability engineering (SRE) for the answers.