The Devops Revolution

Forget about those DevOps, Cloud Computing, AI, Big Data scattered implementations that solution vendors urge you to proceed to. They remain poor investments as long as they don't guarantee that your company will survive and succeed in markets disrupted by Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple (GAFA) as well as Walmart and all the innovative tech startups out there. In this very practical guide, fast, and easy to read, Philippe Abdoulaye, featured several times on Forbes, ZDNet, Inc, cited as a major contributor to the future of the CIO job in 2018, tells all about how to properly and rapidly transform your business including IT around these technologies. Building on the failure and success cases in the increasingly raging digital competition - Weight Watchers, Fitbit, Toys R Us, Sears - he reveals the secrets, techniques, and tips of the very few companies that have been succeeding. You'll learn: (1) Why Amazon's irruption in the toy market, kicked Toys R Us out of business (2) How Weight watchers struggled to survive the disrupted diet market (3) How the GAFAs' platform business model is expanding the network economy a standard and changing the way we do business (4) What's the DevOps culture and how to implement it (5) How DevOps when implemented entirely unlocks platform model's competitive advantage (6) Why DevOps features - agile and lean practices, continuous delivery, Microservices and containers - enable the business benefits of platforms (7) How augmenting DevOps with Design Thinking principles makes it a powerful digital service development platform (8) Actionable DevOps-based Platform Architecture businesses can reuse (9) How WellBeing, Inc., took advantage of the BlueBird platform to disrupt the diet market and put leading and historical firms in troubles. Your company or your career success in the digital economy is your dream, one that you want to share with your staff, clients, and stakeholders. The DevOps Revolution is the complete tool you need to make that dream a reality, ignoring it would be a terrible mistake.