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Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2020. Part 3 covers DevOps tools.
Start with 2020 DevOps Predictions - Part 1
Start with 2020 DevOps Predictions - Part 2
CHANGING DEFINITION OF A MODERN APPLICATION
Today's applications are more complex than those of yesterday. In 2020, modern apps will power tomorrow's innovation and this requires a diverse set of tools, languages and frameworks for developers. Developers need even more flexibility to address this new wave of modern apps and evolve with the rest of the industry.
Scott Johnston
CEO, Docker
TOOL SPRAWL
Tool sprawl will continue to increase but DevOps management platforms will emerge: With continued adoption of cloud and micro services architectures, new tools will continue to emerge — different teams within an organization will often have different tools for planning, version control, build automation, testing, deployment, etc. But, there will be a movement toward platforms that streamline management across various tools and teams to improve development speed and agility.
RJ Jainendra
VP and GM, IT Business Management and DevOps, ServiceNow
The plethora of tools, languages, and frameworks are adding massive complexity to the application development ecosystem. IT teams are challenged to interconnect these disparate languages and platforms to build applications that are the lifeblood of business in today's digital economy. And while conference halls echo with cries of tool and framework fatigue, there will not be a clear resolution in 2020. In fact, there will likely be more disruption.
Davie Cramer
CEO, Sentry
TOOL CONSOLIDATION
We'll continue to see tool consolidation as more DevOps companies are acquired or expand their offerings to offer the experience of multiple apps in one. The market will have less tolerance for a fragmented experience that requires a lot of integration work. They'll demand seamless workflows across the software development life cycle. In particular, operations tooling for observability will expand into other stages to drive insights and optimization for planning, development, and CI/CD.
William Chia
Senior Product Marketing Manager, GitLab
END-TO-END LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
A focus on end-to-end lifecycle management will streamline DevOps workflow complexity. With the emergence of microservices and CI/CD toolchains, there has been an emphasis on developing and leveraging many different tools to tackle small tasks spread across similar parallel workflows. For example, two different teams within an organization often have their own CI/CD pipelines consisting of many different tools catering to version control, build automation, monitoring analytics, early testing, code review processes, and more. While organizations have reaped the benefits of catering to customized workflows, this has also led to incredible tool sprawl within often dispersed teams that can hinder productivity. DevOps vendors are often tasked with ensuring compatibility with tools from other vendors. In 2020, the number of tools will continue to increase, but there will be a movement toward end-to-end lifecycle management and single applications that streamline tooling and workflows to ultimately improve software development speed and agility.
Sid Phadkar
Senior Product Manager, Akamai
DEVELOPER DECISION-MAKING
Developers on the front lines will have a larger role in deciding what technology enterprises choose to adopt in 2020 and beyond. We've seen this trend begin the rise of open-source software, which appeals to developers because they can start playing with it immediately and test it out on new projects, without having to commit to a lengthy corporate evaluation and purchase process. As the pace of software development accelerates and the pool of useful solutions becomes exponentially larger, front-line developers' intimate knowledge of the products in their niche becomes even more important. They know the products inside and out and have unique insight into how they perform and can contribute to specific business goals.
Paul Dix
CTO and Co-founder, InfluxData
MINIMIZING COSTS
As the economy becomes more unstable, organizations will look to validate and optimize the value their DevOps tooling provides at scale. Organizations everywhere are going to seek ways to cut costs without cutting output to weather the storm. Cloud-first and digital transformation initiatives within organizations have typically been given a free hand on budgetary needs over the last few years. At the same time, the maturity of DevOps tooling has meant that these tools have evolved and are now leveraged at scale and getting costlier every day. In 2020, organizations will have a significant focus on cost structures and will look to leverage DevOps tooling that provides equivalent value, but minimizes costs at scale.
Sid Phadkar
Senior Product Manager, Akamai
DEV TOOLS TEAM
As DevOps continues to mature and more software development teams leverage it as a delivery strategy in 2020, I next foresee large organizations (with tens of development teams) requiring a dedicated Dev Tools and Standards team that more formally builds in governance and best practices around DevOps strategy. Such teams will build a suite of tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and security policies and frameworks that can be used by multiple software development teams within an organization — making them both productive and consistent in their software delivery.
Kaushik Mysur
Director of Product Management, Instaclustr
FEATURE FLAGS
Commercial feature flag solutions, having proved they can deliver scalable and reliable control of feature exposure, will grow up in 2020 and begin delivering self awareness features aimed at monitoring and experimentation. In their infant stage, feature flag-as-a-service providers proved they could decouple deployment from release, freeing software teams to embrace trunk-based development. Now the race will be towards addressing the application performance management (APM) blindspot created by partial rollouts and delivering on end-to-end experimentation capabilities.
Dave Karow
Continuous Delivery Evangelist, Split.io
Go to 2020 DevOps Predictions - Part 4, covering analytics and automation.
Industry News
Postman released v11, a significant update that speeds up development by reducing collaboration friction on APIs.
Sysdig announced the launch of the company’s Runtime Insights Partner Ecosystem, recognizing the leading security solutions that combine with Sysdig to help customers prioritize and respond to critical security risks.
Nokod Security announced the general availability of the Nokod Security Platform.
Drata has acquired oak9, a cloud native security platform, and released a new capability in beta to seamlessly bring continuous compliance into the software development lifecycle.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Q, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, the latest version of the enterprise Linux platform.
ActiveState unveiled Get Current, Stay Current (GCSC) – a continuous code refactoring service that deals with breaking changes so enterprises can stay current with the pace of open source.
Lineaje released Open-Source Manager (OSM), a solution to bring transparency to open-source software components in applications and proactively manage and mitigate associated risks.
Synopsys announced the availability of Polaris Assist, an AI-powered application security assistant on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform®.
Backslash Security announced the findings of its GPT-4 developer simulation exercise, designed and conducted by the Backslash Research Team, to identify security issues associated with LLM-generated code. The Backslash platform offers several core capabilities that address growing security concerns around AI-generated code, including open source code reachability analysis and phantom package visibility capabilities.
Azul announced that Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul’s cloud analytics solution -- which provides actionable intelligence from production Java runtime data to dramatically boost developer productivity -- now supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based JVM (Java Virtual Machine) from any vendor or distribution.
F5 announced new security offerings: F5 Distributed Cloud Services Web Application Scanning, BIG-IP Next Web Application Firewall (WAF), and NGINX App Protect for open source deployments.
Code Intelligence announced a new feature to CI Sense, a scalable fuzzing platform for continuous testing.
WSO2 is adding new capabilities for WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK), and WSO2 Micro Integrator.