DevOps: A Definition and Perceived Adoption Impediments

DevOps Adoption Benefits and Challenges in Practice: A Case Study

“…Technical environments that are difficult to replicate add up to the challenges. Both challenges in the environment have been highlighted earlier [13].…”

“…Guidelines suggesting how to share information can help but changing the culture of a company can be a challenge. The cultural aspects are significant, as has been previously stated [7,13]. The size of the company or having company-wide support for the change might matter.…”

“…Release cycles can shorten to hours instead of weeks and months [11], which is seen as a definite advantage of DevOps [4,7]. Monolithic architectures restrict the release frequency [13] but microservice architectures help to break down components into smaller pieces suitable for frequent releases [2,13].…”

“…performance or availability might be overlooked as the responsibility of running the product is shifted to the operations team, letting developers off the hook [14]. Without proper access to production systems and error logs, developers become frustrated [14,13]. Such challenges are only exacerbated if the development teams are distributed [13].…”

“…Without proper access to production systems and error logs, developers become frustrated [14,13]. Such challenges are only exacerbated if the development teams are distributed [13]. …”