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Looking Past DevOps: AI, ClickOps and
Platform Engineering
By Prashanth Nanjundappa, VP, Product Management, Progress
About fifteen years ago, DevOps radically overhauled the world of software engineering. Previously, the
development process had been defined by sometimes maddening delays, as development teams waited
for operations teams to deploy and run new applications or add a new server. By effectively combining
these teams—evenly spreading the responsibility for development and underlying infrastructure—the
DevOps paradigm brought a new degree of flexibility to the process. Many of the incredible technological
leaps we've seen in the last decade-plus can be attributed to the accelerated development cycles that
DevOps facilitates.
But this paradigm brought problems of its own. For one thing, developers had to take on new skill sets,
leading to cognitive overload. For another, DevOps practices could lead to a troubling lack of
standardization within a given company: three teams might be using entirely different platforms to deliver
and run their applications. And then there's the fact that a decade and a half since DevOps became the
industry standard, the complexity of the infrastructure underlying new applications has become far more
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