Mike Kennedy, an enterprise architect at UC Riverside since 1995, discusses the modernization of application deployment processes using tools like Grails, GitLab, and Jenkins to improve control, logging, and collaboration between developers and DevOps. The presentation highlights key projects, current strengths and weaknesses of processes, and the importance of automation and communication in the application delivery cycle. Early outcomes indicate quick buy-in and positive feedback from both developers and DevOps teams, with all tools employed being free and open source.