Even with more managed services coming to relieve the burden on the developer and operator, developers need to know the underlying workings of these services to make effective use of them in production. Just as developers write automated tests, future developers will be expected to know how their application can be delivered quickly and reliably to the customer.

Operators will take the hints from the developer specs and deliver them a stable system – whose metrics can be used for future software development, thus completing the virtuous cycle.

Developers owning the responsibility of running the software that they develop instead of throwing it over the wall for operations is a change in mindset that has origins in Amazon (https://www.slideshare.net/ufried/the-truth-about-you-build-it-you-run-it).

The advantages of the DevOps model not only change the responsibilities of the operations and development teams—it also changes the business side of organizations. The foundation of DevOps can enable businesses to accelerate the time to market significantly if combined with a lean and agile process and operations model.