Modern DevOps: The Shift to Operating Continuously

Images have a unique ability to influence our comprehension and perception due to their processing speed in the brain compared to text. The traditional DevOps infinity loop, attributed to Dustin Whittle, portrays DevOps as a sequence of phases. However, modern DevOps does not occur in a linear structure but rather processes that happen in parallel and often out of order. In the book "Operating Continuously," Edith Harbaugh, Cody De Arkland, and the author focus on continuous operation with steps that happen in parallel, enabling ops teams to operate more efficiently and companies to deliver value to users at a consistent and rapid pace. The deployment process covers the workflow of moving compiled code onto a destination infrastructure or software platform, decoupled via feature flags. Release responsibility has shifted to the ops side of the circle with strategies like canary deployments and kill switches. Monitoring and observability are now blended into the operate step, creating the opportunity to implement practices that quantify the efficacy of the features released to end users more proactively. The dev and ops sides of the infinity loop are interconnected gears, with each side needing the other to turn efficiently to operate at full force.