Observability

A year ago I called DevSecOps, continuous delivery, cloud and AIOps as the trends for 2021. Most of those landed. For 2022 the picture gets more interesting because DevOps is no longer a single wave — different parts of the market are at very different stages of adoption. To make sense of that, I map the 2022 trends onto the technology adoption lifecycle: late majority, early majority and early adopters.

The second way to introduce DevOps is to build a strong flow of feedback going in the opposite direction of the value flow — from customers and production back into the business and into development. This is the Second Way in Gene Kim’s Three Ways framework, and it is what stops the First Way from optimising in the dark.