Take A Progressive Approach To DevOps
October 16, 2023 Jeff Tickner
As Gene Amdahl, the chief architect of the IBM System/360 mainframe, correctly observed and what was subsequently codified as Amdahl’s Law, any kind of system that implements any kind of process is only as fast as its slowest component. What is true of bottlenecks in human processes is equally true in systems design and also in that overlapping area known as DevOps – the confluence of application development and system operations.
If you can only be as fast as your slowest bottleneck, the converse is also true that you can speed up overall throughput of a workflow or a …
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