DevOps efforts stumble over database obstacles, survey suggests
Summary
DevOps and Agile methodologies may help speed up and sync up software release cycles, but theres something that tends to get in the way of even the tightest operations -- back-end databases. When it comes to the data side of the equation, things have not improved since last years survey, the studys authors report. In addition, companies with the most ambitious application release cycles suffered the biggest impact from slow, manual deployment of database schema changes. This was followed closely by long database change review and approval cycles (49%) and having a very manual deployment process with many steps that can fail (48%). The report highlights greater automation as the most effective way to address this lagging piece of the software release picture.
