Gene Kim provides predictions for DevOps in 2019 based on findings from the 2018 State of DevOps report. Key findings show elite performing teams deploy more frequently, recover from outages faster, and rarely outsource. The rise of pipelines and a divide between business and technical challenges were also discussed. Functional programming concepts may influence the future of operations work. DevOps practices need to include all roles and processes should be defined, automated, auditable and repeatable.

1. December 13, 2018
2019 DevOps Predictions:
Gene Kim Places His Bets for Next Year

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Meet Your Presenters
Gene Kim Andreas Prins
@AndreasPrins@RealGeneKim

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State of DevOps 2018
▪ Fifth year of the State of DevOps Report
− Encompassing over 30K respondents
▪ Full of interesting and provocative learnings

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Key Findings - Elite Performers
© 2018, DevOps Research and Assessment, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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New 2018 Performance Benchmarks
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Outsourcing
▪ Low performing teams are 3.9X
more likely to use functional
outsourcing than elite teams
▪ Elite teams rarely adopt functional
outsourcing
Misguided performers
have the highest use
of outsourcing of all
groups
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Misinformed Low Performers
▪ Some teams optimize for caution: low deploy
frequency, high lead times, and low deployment
failure
▪ That same group also reports the longest times to
restore service for outages (1-6 months!)
▪ Large-batch changes add complexity & no one
thinks it will happen to them, but 5% of teams
suffer the consequences
© 2018, DevOps Research and Assessment, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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The Rise of Pipelines
Cloud and
microservices
Bundled
business
releases
Combined CI
cycles towards
production

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The Business/Technical Divide
▪ Increasingly, the obstacles and challenges facing technology leaders
are outside of the technology value stream
− Project management, information security and compliance, business
leadership

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DevOps Enterprise: Lessons Learned
▪ In 2018, IT Revolution held the fifth DevOps Enterprise Summit, a conference for horses, by
horses
▪ Over the years, the conference has hosted over 250 leaders from:
− Capital One, KeyBank, Barclays, GE Capital, ING Bank, Fidelity, PNC, ADP, BofA, Western Union, BBVA
− Nationwide Insurance, Zurich Insurance, Hiscox, Aviva, LV=
− Walmart, Nordstrom, Target, Macy’s, Marks and Spencer
− Nike, Adidas, Sherwin Williams
− Verizon, Telstra, T-Mobile, Orange, CSG
− Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, CSRA, Jaguar Land Rover
− Disney, Ticketmaster, NBC/Universal
− Kaiser Permanente
− US Citizenship & Immigration Services, UK HM Revenue Collection, DISA Forge.mil, NZ Ministry of Social
Development, UK Welfare and Pensions, US Joint Warfare Analysis Center

16. 16Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgf_D2DUlJ0&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuzV60LtpXOIPNnd6p67dWSN&index=7

17. 17Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDx627FRVg&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuzV60LtpXOIPNnd6p67dWSN&index=4

18. 18Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XYIs-6ZMjk&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuzV60LtpXOIPNnd6p67dWSN&index=3

19. 19Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13C95oShKgQ&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuzV60LtpXOIPNnd6p67dWSN&index=14

20. 20Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5CllYwdOwM&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuzV60LtpXOIPNnd6p67dWSN&index=10

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DevOps as Code
define
every
element
automate
all
steps
include
every
role
repeatable
release
process
auditable
release
process

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Developers
SREs
Architects
Release Managers
Change Managers
Testers
Audit/Compliance
Security
IT Management

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A Big Surprise for Gene
▪ For decades, I self-identified as an Ops person…
▪ 2 years ago, I’ve started to self-identify as Dev
− Clojure / ClojureScript
− LISP, functional programming, immutability
− 3,000 lines of Objective C -> 1500 lines of TypeScript/React -> 500 lines of
ClojureScript
▪ Development is so fun, and these days, you can do miraculous
things with so little effort

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Functional Programming and Future of Ops
Source: Cornelia Davis, Pivotal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RDhUf1Go4)

27. 27Source: Cornelia Davis, Pivotal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RDhUf1Go4)

28. 28Source: Cornelia Davis, Pivotal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RDhUf1Go4)

29. 29Source: Cornelia Davis, Pivotal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RDhUf1Go4)

30. 30Source: Cornelia Davis, Pivotal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RDhUf1Go4)

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Interestingly, it Portends Future of Ops
▪ Core concepts
− Immutability
− Pure functions
− Composability
▪ Look at…
− Docker, Docker Compose
− Kubernetes
− Kubernetes sidecars
− Event streams: Apache Kafka

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Never Have I Valued Infrastructure More
▪ Things I detest now
− Everything outside of my application
− Connecting anything to anything
− Secrets management
− Bash
− YAML
− Patching
− Building Kubernetes deployment files (mostly by Googling)
− Why my cloud costs are so high

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Predictive
DevOps

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