Developer Viewpoint — What is DevOps and when should you use it?

Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
Capgemini Microsoft Blog
4 min readFeb 20, 2019

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DevOps is Agile done right and it is an Agile enabler

Developer Viewpoint is regular section on the blog a section, the previous post can be read Developer Viewpoint — How has Dynamics 365 changed in the last few years.

In this post Ekhor Asemota explores the topic of DevOps with Kriss Sulikowski.

Kriss is popularly referred to as the “daddy of DevOps” within the Capgemini Microsoft community for his relentless effort to ensure that the core tenets of DevOps are adopted by projects within the unit. He is a highly experienced software engineer who has worked in several industries using a broad range of technologies such as C#, ASP.NET, SQL, SSIS, SSRS, BizTalk and CRM. He currently focuses on .NET, Azure, Dynamics 365, and DevOps.

Ekhor is an experienced Microsoft developer with experience in DevOps processes for Dynamics 365

Ekhor: In today’s IT industry, DevOps is trending and as such everybody is jumping into this train with little knowledge of what DevOps entails. Could you given a brief overview on what you would consider as DevOps?

Kriss: The simplest answer is that “DevOps is Agile done right and it is an Agile enabler”. It is not a job role or a buzzword but the…

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Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
Capgemini Microsoft Blog

Technology philosopher | Software dev → Solution architect | Avid reader | Life long learner