Most institutions failed to understand that devops is a practice of silo busting, not a team or a job title. The most devopsy thing you can do is treat IT service development and ownership like a product instead of a project. All you really have to do, though, is sit the developers next to the ops folks and let the law of proximate communication do the rest.
Institutions and institutional corporations generally can’t make the switch in mindset to multidisciplinary service teams, and established project managers will even fight it tooth and nail since it looks like a threat to their jobs.
Microservices are orthogonal. Architecturally they are just SOA, now with json/grpc instead of wsdl et al. Operationally and strategically they are slightly a better fit for service teams, but only at scale. Small and medium enterprises will experience inefficiency instead.
Conway’s Law is super applicable to understanding these dynamics.
Institutions and institutional corporations generally can’t make the switch in mindset to multidisciplinary service teams, and established project managers will even fight it tooth and nail since it looks like a threat to their jobs.
Microservices are orthogonal. Architecturally they are just SOA, now with json/grpc instead of wsdl et al. Operationally and strategically they are slightly a better fit for service teams, but only at scale. Small and medium enterprises will experience inefficiency instead.
Conway’s Law is super applicable to understanding these dynamics.