DevOps: What is it and how can it contribute to your company?

It's a fact that technology has advanced a great deal in recent years and has brought major changes to society and companies. While all these changes are great for organizations and their customers, they are also creating unexpected challenges for IT departments around the world.

With the growing demand for software development, instant updates, and real-time communications, IT companies had to change their operating paradigm, taking a more critical look focused on applying rapid change, and thinking about operations and development tasks in an integrated way — an approach known as DevOps.

DevOps is not based on rigorous methodologies and processes, but on professional principles that pursue collaborative work across the company's areas, breaking down the well-known organizational silos. The guiding principles of DevOps include culture, mediation, automation, and sharing.

DevOps culture advocates simplifying processes, making the workflow less costly and bureaucratic, enabling quick adaptation to change and reducing delivery effort. Alongside this simplification comes the automation of tasks such as tests and deploys (shipping the software to the end user), which ensures quality and agility in deliveries.

The benefits are numerous, such as reliability, efficiency, risk reduction, agility, and, above all, collaboration between teams, producing innovative solutions and better results for the company.

So it's clear that DevOps comes to change the culture of each company area operating in isolation, making the management, process, and information areas much more integrated as a whole, with a shared goal: the success of the organization.

Article originally written for the Meta Blog.