Media and Analyst Q&A: Perspectives on the Present and Future of DevOps
summary
Panelists argue that the market is mostly legacy: 1% using new tech versus 99% legacy, teams spend 75–90% of time on existing infrastructure and under 1% on innovation. Claims debated include whether containers bypass CI and whether Kubernetes is just another control plane. Concrete examples: a Gates Foundation prototype is built in two weeks with Habitat and compliance tooling surfaces GDPR -> thousands of controls that make “compliance as code” hard but necessary; observability, ML on telemetry, DBaaS and AI-driven test automation emerge as practical levers.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:25Introductions
- 1:16Is DevOps changing
- 8:28Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
- 10:05Who is using containers
- 12:32Who are you working with
- 12:49CICD
- 14:15Kubernetes
- 14:58The paradox
- 15:53How do you approach your work
- 17:39How much time do you spend on innovation
- 18:58Can you show me what I can do to get out of that spiral
- 21:20Is this fast pace of change exciting
- 21:48How do people deal with this change
- 23:48How do people get the skills
- 25:44Have an evolutionary mindset
- 26:29Compliance
- 27:22GDPR
- 29:37Devops vs Operations
- 31:58TechTarget Coverage
- 33:37Operating Models
- 34:22Binary vs Evolutionary
- 35:02Buying Patterns
- 36:17Artificial Intelligence
- 38:52Most Innovative Technology
- 40:28Observability
- 41:13Database as a Service
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