What are the benefits of following DevOps practices?

DevOps is an evolving philosophy and framework that encourages faster, better application development and faster release of new or revised software features or products to customers.

The practice of DevOps encourages smoother, continuous communication, collaboration, integration, visibility, and transparency between application development teams (Dev) and their IT operations team (Ops) counterparts.

DevOps proponents describe several business and technical benefits, many of which can result in happier customers. Some benefits of DevOps include:

• Faster, better product delivery
• Faster issue resolution and reduced complexity
• Greater scalability and availability
• More stable operating environments
• Better resource utilization
• Greater automation
• Greater visibility into system outcomes
• Greater innovation