One of the big keys to success when moving into DevOps cloud environments is the augmentation of human efforts with automated tools and IT. That is: identifying areas across the DevOps tool chain that will have a positive impact through the removal of manual efforts, and a push forward for quality and speed. In a IDC’s “Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2018 Predictions”, it cites that by 2022 – just four years – 50% of standard developer’s tasks will be automated.
My colleagues, Andi Grabner and Mark Tomlinson, both performance advocates at Dynatrace and PayPal respectively, have been discussing various best practices around DevOps tool chain automation over the last six months, in webinars, and most recently at Dynatrace’s Perform user conference in January. In this blog, I’d like to share one of the cool, automated work flows they discuss, that of building continuous performance environments that include ‘performance-as-a-self-service’.
