DevOps: Almost 10 Years - What A Strange Long Trip It's Been

This keynote presentation by John Willis at DevOpsDays NYC 2018 explores the evolution of the DevOps movement over its first decade. Journey through the historical progression from early Cfengine adoption based on convergence principles to Puppet's mainstream emergence in 2008-2010, Chef's introduction of reusable infrastructure in 2009, and the rise of Continuous Delivery around 2010. Discover how containers and immutable delivery models transformed the landscape in 2015-2016, and understand the profound influence of thought leaders like Deming, Goldratt, and Gene Kim on DevOps practices. Learn about the integration of Lean principles through Rother's "Learning to See" and DJ Anderson's Kanban for Software, as well as how Mike Nygard's circuit breaker patterns became state-of-the-art in Google's Envoy/ITSIO design. Examine the impact of Dr. Cook's complex systems failure research, Dr. Sidney Dekker's "Drift into Failure" on Netflix's architecture, and the significance of the 2017 Stella Report by Dr. Cook, Dr. Woods, and John Allspaw. The presentation concludes with an assessment of DevOps' current state and introduces emerging influences like Cynefin and Simon Wardley's Mapping.