High-speed innovation allowed startups like Amazon, Google, and Netflix to dominate markets. Yet at some point, they all faced issues familiar to established companies. Slow, risky releases and a rift between development (dev) and operations (ops) pushed them to adopt a radical DevOps strategy.

Before the advent of DevOps, companies had separate “walled-off” teams of developers, testers, and operations. All too often they had conflicting goals and little insight into other “camps”.

Throwing issues over the wall to another team creates bottlenecks that slow innovation. In the world of Agile development and SaaS products, this can destroy your competitiveness.

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