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DevOps Is Dead, Long Live AppOps
Learn why AppOps is so important
Yes, I used a clickbait title. Sorry, it was for a good cause. I needed your attention to introduce a new underrated trend in DevOps, the AppOps.
In the IT world, learning new buzzwords is a daily occurrence. Most of them are like a meteor and dissolves before you could fully understand what you should learn. Some others will be the trend to follow for the following years. I can mention DevOps and Frontend, just to make some examples about what I’m talking about.
All this introduction explains why we are bombed by new terms and have to focus on the right ones. Despite the title, I do not believe in buzzwords or trends. I believe in concepts. Concepts remain even when technologies and trends get out of fashion.
That’s why in this article I will talk about that AppOps concept. Then, when you will start hearing about the new AppOps trends you will know how to argue.
The NoOps trends
The NoOps trend aims to remove all the frictions between development and the operation simply removing it, as the name tells.
This may seem a drastic solution, but we do not have to take it literally. The right interpretation — the feasible one — is to remove as much as possible the human component in the deployment and delivery phases.
That approach is naturally supported by the cloud that helps things to work by themself. If you are interested in discovering more about NoOps you can read an article I wrote a few years ago.
By the way, all you need to know to continue reading this article is:
NoOps simply reduce the human effort into the deployment pipeline and bring awareness into the development teams.
So, NoOps isn’t something in conflict with DevOps. Instead, it simply aims to use DevOps in a clever way when the situation allows us.
Focusing on the App
Even if you are writing a small application or a very big project, you cannot avoid doing it without a proper DevOps setup.
