by Angela Guess
Abel Avram reports, “A year ago Forrester published the report Augment DevOps with NoOps, envisioning a not-so-distant future when some companies will rely more and more on the cloud and developers will automate even more their building, testing and deploying operations, leading to NoOps. While the term suggests that such companies will not employ operations staff, the report actually talks about operations working on better automated tools for developers, tools that require less manual intervention.”
He continues, “GigaOM published this year an infographic created by AppFog’s Founder and CEO Lucas Carlson, predicting that 2013 will be a NoOps year for programmers. The infographic shows how computing costs for start-ups exponentially decreased while their productivity exponentially increased as the computing model evolved from the datacenters of the 1990s, to virtualized solutions of 2000s, then to IaaS (AWS), and it received another boost from systematized SysOps Management in 2011, which represents employing advanced automated operations with products such as Chef and Puppet. Carlson appreciates that developers currently spend 60% of the time programming and the other 40% doing operations – middleware, network and virtualized hardware management, plus provisioning and security.”
