FEATURE : IT WORKFORCE
THIS SHIFT IS AKIN TO WHAT TOOK PLACE DURING THE YEARS FROM 1997 TO 2002 WHEN THE EMERGENCE OF THE COMMERCIAL INTERNET AND THE . COM ERA TURNED PRIORITIES UPSIDE DOWN FOR MUCH OF CORPORATE IT .
data with automation and methods analogous to agile software engineering
• DevOps uses collaborative , agile approaches paired with extensive automation development pipelines , testing , infrastructure configuration , provisioning , security controls and life-cycle continuous integration ( CI ) for continuous development and continuous delivery ( CD )
• DevSecOps uses a methodology that asserts that security needs to be prioritized at the beginning of the
DevOps delivery pipeline . It enables DevOps teams , collaborating with security , to act as key stakeholders in defining and implementing security policies
• ITOps uses technology and methods to provide routine , scheduled tasks and unscheduled support activities related to IT systems . ITOps professionals may spend as much as 50 % of their time engaged with business users in support , the elicitation of requirements and performing contingent or secondary business tasks
• MLOps uses technology and processes to streamline and automate the entire Machine Learning ( ML ) life cycle . The key capabilities include managing and automating ML data and pipelines , ML code , and ML models from data ingestion to model deployment , tracking and monitoring . MLOps uses similar principles to DevOps practices applied to Machine Learning processes
• Platform engineering is a discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities focused on managing and optimizing the software delivery process to deploy applications and services to cloud platforms
• Site reliability engineering ( SRE ) includes software engineers who build scripts to automate IT operations tasks such as maintenance and support . To enable efficiency and reliability , SRE teams fix operational bugs and remove manual work in rote tasks
• Systems administrators configure , maintain and support computer systems , and systems of systems using a variety of tools and methods appropriate to
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