Daniel Tao

3 Key Steps for Optimizing DevOps Workflows

What if the key to safer DevOps isn't preventing every failure, but recovering from them faster? Learn three provocative strategies for optimizing your workflows.

3 Key Steps for Optimizing DevOps Workflows
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The goal of DevOps is optimizing for speed and safety

True DevOps optimization involves finding the best solution that balances the competing dimensions of shipping software quickly and safely.

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Prioritize incident detection and recovery over prevention

Focusing on reducing incident duration through rapid detection and recovery provides a higher return on investment than attempting to prevent all failures.

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Eradicate tribal knowledge by automating system guardrails

Instead of relying on fallible human processes like runbooks and training, change the system to make mistakes impossible through automation.

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Increase deployment frequency to reduce release risk

Deploying smaller batches of changes more frequently is safer than slowing down, as it minimizes the risk and complexity of each individual release.

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