National DevOps Day 2023 is approaching; businesses, developers, and software engineers must celebrate this day to create awareness and improve their workflows.
In the development industry, veterans are exploring new opportunities to embrace DevOps in their operations to optimize the development process. A tremendous revolution is happening in how developers design, develop, and deploy new applications, software, and tools. Developers and software engineers should make necessary changes to adapt to the changing industry needs.
“For workers looking to be developers, the entry bar has changed. While a bachelor’s degree still holds immense value and meaning for job seekers and businesses alike, the rise in micro-credentialing and professional certifications has opened up new opportunities for people pursuing careers in tech,” says Danny King, CEO of digital credentialing platform Accredible.
In this article, let’s explore the importance of National DevOps Day and what it means to developers.
Aspects Developers Should Consider for National DevOps Day 2023
Here are a few lists of things developers should consider for this year’s National DevOps Day, celebrated every year on 24th May, to scale professionally.
Upskill or Reskill Skillsets to Develop Customer-Centric Applications
Today’s Businesses are exploring opportunities to leverage value stream management (VSM) to effectively create a road map for product strategy. They want to utilize the roadmap to add value to the application or software that delivers to the business. There is a surge in the demand for value stream management in organizations today.
Enterprises today focus on eliminating layers between developer-led product teams and end users to design, develop and deliver an application that aligns with the client’s needs. Customer-centric application development is the next big thing in DevOps that developers need to focus us. Modern developers must focus on the end-users while designing and developing the application to ensure client satisfaction.
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One effective way developers can align their goals with the end users is by adding a customer-centric feedback approach from production back into development to ensure they consider the client’s needs right from the design stage and make necessary changes to the applications.
The developer’s job description today is evolving, and developers need to upskill and reskill their skill sets based on the industry and customer demands. Having more general skills like programming and data analytics is important. Still, it is equally important for developers to continue learning new tools, new concepts, and new skills through ongoing training and development.
“we can take this a bit further to understand learning trends for people seeking micro-credentials, like how many certificates and badges were issued and what skills see the highest interest. From our most recent data, so far in 2023, the most sought-after skills include programming languages – which rank at the top – like Python, SQL, and JavaScript, as well as tech skills like web development, Google platform tools (analytics, cloud, etc.) and data science. For developers, in particular, skills like programming languages and web development are certainly top of mind for many and highly pursued based on our data,” adds Danny.
The developer’s job roles must evolve according to the market demands; today’s developers are expected to integrate marketing and end-user experience monitoring (EUEM) tools into their workflows to ensure a customer-centric application development process.
To ensure a scaling career, developers must embrace this trend in their workflows and reskill their knowledge accordingly. Developers can get various certification courses from the best institutions to reskill and upskill their development skills.
“When a person completes a course or training, they get a digital certificate or a digital badge proving the successful completion of their coursework and gain a valuable token that helps prove their proficiency with different in-demand skills. Various top organizations offer partner training programs, increasing the popularity of their programs since the introduction of digital credentials that can be shared on social media,” adds Danny.
Moreover, automation is the new normal; it is crucial to focus more on automated applications to ensure the end user is happy with the tool and has to put in less effort.
Paradigm Shift from Reliability to Resilience Engineering
Organizations are now focusing on “NewOps” to get expertise in cloud operations and site reliability engineering (SRE). However, this trend is in demand and will continue to rise; a few industry veterans consider the “R” in “SRE” will witness a paradigm shift from “reliability” to “resilience.”
Developers and software engineers now need to focus on resilience engineering instead of on-site reliability and chaos engineering. Resilience engineering is a perfect amalgamation of academic skillsets, industrial engineering, and cognitive user psychology to design, develop and deliver resilient applications that fit the purpose.
At the core of resilience development is the acknowledgment of failure. Modern-day developers on National DevOps Day 2023 should not concentrate on avoiding failure. Rather they should focus on reducing the recovery turnaround time.
Real-time Efficient Governance and Compliance
Today’s organizations plan to create a revolution in the coming years regarding governance. It is crucial to have agile principles of constant governance. Businesses will leverage more automated platforms to automate the governance process and have auto-correcting dynamic controls.
Developers and software engineers should be well versed with these tools to achieve agility in their application development and deployment stage without exposing them to risks.
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Compliance as code is the new normal
As compliance laws become more stringent, enterprises incorporate compliance into their code, playbooks, scripts, and other activities. Developers must become well-versed in automation, autoscaling, and provisioning to optimize kernel, distribution, or software update and patching audits.
Software engineers should use a configuration management database (CMDB) for comprehensive asset monitoring to utilize more ID labels and tags for enhanced application monitoring capabilities.
Security Needs to be an Integral Part of Development
Many organizations have left DevOps and have started embracing DevSecOps as a part of their development strategy. It is a significant paradigm shift that includes security as a crucial part of the development lifecycle.
In today’s sophisticated cybercrime landscape, developers need to be aware of the potential threats and vulnerabilities to the application or software and consider them while designing and developing the application to reduce the risk post-deployment. Developers must consider upgrading their skillsets to scale their careers and seamlessly fit into DevSecOps operations.
As National DevOps Day 2023 is around the corner, developers and software engineers should consider upskilling and reskilling their skill sets to adapt to the changing market and consumer needs.
