Why Software Should Be Designed for IT Operations Efficiency

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07.11.2023
Rapid application development and deployment are not enough to achieve digitalization - IT operations must also be rebuilt, writes Gigaom analyst Joe Fay on ComputerWeekly.

Is digital transformation purely a matter of speed? It’s not hard to think so, given that it’s typically associated with a shift toward faster deployment of software, features, and services.

The theory goes that the sooner you get them into production, the sooner you'll start seeing value. It follows that the sooner you can remove all the barriers to adoption, the sooner developers and designers can start making magic, accelerating new businesses or revitalizing old, aging organizations.

The desire for continuous or at least rapid argentina mobile database usually comes with a move to the cloud, or at least a cloud-like architecture with more automation. It may seem like the best thing operations staff can do is just get out of the way.

But while the path may seem well-trodden, few have made it all the way, says HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet. The cloud can be a modernization engine, he says, but while some people use it very well, most don’t, and some do it very poorly.

“What we’ve learned over the last seven or eight years is that to be successful, people have to be incredibly consistent,” says MacJanette. “I’m not a big fan of the triptych of people, process, and tools, but it turns out that’s what matters. Changing one or two of those things isn’t enough. You have to consider all three.”

Needless to say, McGannet advocates standardization on infrastructure as code as part of the recipe for success, ideally in the form of Terraform. But, he says, “the second thing that’s needed to make this work is some kind of organizational structure.”