Executives love continuous integration more than developers, for now
Summary
Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) is one of those things that promises to make Agile a reality, but requires a fairly thorough transformation in the workflows of IT organizations.) Tellingly, the people in corner offices are pushing hard for it, while developers and IT staffers are holding back.Photo: Joe McKendrick That is one of the takeaways from a recent survey of 600 IT executives and professionals, conducted by CloudFoundry, which finds increasing adoption of newer techniques and technologies, from PaaS to containers to serverless computing.Containers 32% DevOps 32% Cloud-native architecture 25% Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) 23% Microservices 23% Artificial intelligence/machine learning 21% Serverless computing 19%Containers have crossed the chasm because "they give companies on their cloud journey a way to test out cloud-native technologies, for example building in continuous delivery practices and refactoring applications.