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The Ultimate DevOps Hourly Rate Guide for 2022

DevOps as a whole has been experiencing massive growth since 2014 when it first became a mainstream concept. This point is reinforced by the Vice President of Research & Strategy at Microsoft's GitHub, Nicole Forsgren, who acknowledged that DevOps is rapidly growing worldwide. The consequence is that, as the market, ranging from small and lean startups to large enterprises, begins to realize the efficiency of DevOps, hourly rates for related jobs are subsequently growing as well.

By bringing together professionals from security, web development, education, banking, and telecommunication, we can observe a surge in demand for skilled people to fill DevOps positions.

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DevSecOps: Securing Software in a DevOps World

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The practice of improving and ensuring the security of software is generally referred to as (the field of) application security, or "AppSec" for short. In a traditional waterfall system development lifecycle (SDLC), AppSec was often an afterthought, with someone (a penetration tester) being hired to come in just before release to perform last-minute security testing, or not at all. Slowly, many development shops started adding more AppSec activities such as secure code reviews, providing secure coding guidance or standards, giving developers security tools, and introducing many other great ideas that improved the overall security of the end product. Some companies even went so far as to create their own team dedicated to application security. However, there is currently no agreed-upon standardization on what defines a complete AppSec program, nor a definition of when someone can say that "the job is done" or that they have done "enough" in regard to the security of software. The line seems to vary greatly from team to team, business to government, and country to country, which makes it a difficult thing to measure.

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Mutual Interdependence: The New Normal

DevOps is a culture, not a process or a tool. It's a way of structuring teams and thinking about projects so organizations can ship faster and more often. DevOps asks organizations: "What does 'ready' mean?" Ready used to mean a complete product, perfect, ready to ship. Now, smaller teams using DevOps methodologies are shipping smaller releases more frequently, and they're comfortable with the fact that those releases may not be perfect and may require updates. Let's take a look at the ramifications of this cultural shift, and how it changes the way teams approach their role and processes.

Moving Fast, Trying Not to Break Things

As customers, we hope someone has made the app we need so that it's ready the moment we realize our need. The speed and Agile delivery of software have changed our expectations about how often releases and updates happen, and we want them to happen even faster. How are organizations speeding up their development process while releasing more often, faster, and avoiding the inherent risks involved?