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The Four Pillars of DevOps

Alberto De Natale
4 min readDec 26, 2020

No matter at which point you are in your technical journey, you will have heard of DevOps.

But what does DevOps means?

A typical definition of what DevOps means is:

DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.

Typically, the goal for Development is to deliver more features faster, and the goal of Operations is to achieve better system stability. DevOps aligns these disciplines by using a framework of best practices proven to increase speed to market while improving system stability.

The objective of DevOps is to maximise the output of what a team can deliver. It provides best practices that allow removing waste.

Four pillars support DevOps at Microsoft and in this article I will look at what they are.

Culture

For our purposes, culture is the social heritage of a group. It’s a pattern of responses discovered, developed, or invented during the group’s history of handling problems that arise from interactions among its members, and between them and their environment.

The primary responsibility of leadership is the creation of an…

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Alberto De Natale
Alberto De Natale

Written by Alberto De Natale

Alberto De Natale is a passionate tech-enthusiast software developer.

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