I’m late bringing this to you as I’ve been ill for a few days so please accept my apologies. Last week I read a great piece that makes a really strong case for DevOps. If you think businesses can continue to thrive while they isolate their software, operations, network and test engineers in separate teams and assigned to projects by resource coordinators then you need to read this article.

I won’t write too much more here because I really just want you to read Ms. Macvittie’s article. I do want to close by saying that I’ve heard a lot about the dangers of optimising too early I’ve also seen many examples of what happens when you optimise too late. I think cross-functional product-centric teams can help maintain the balance between feature development and optimisation whether that’s service optimisation as discussed in Ms. Macvittie’s article or refactoring: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/microservices-and-http2

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