Evolving DevOps with productivity and improving the developer experience

Watch this video interview with head of developer relations Justin Reock.

Justin Reock is the Head of Developer Relations for Cortex.io. He is an outspoken speaker, writer, and software practice evangelist with more than 20 years of experience working in various software roles. His experience includes delivering enterprise solutions, technical leadership, and community education on a range of topics.

Justin sat down with the All Things Open team at DevOpsDays Raleigh to talk about the real origins of DevOps, how productivity impacts the developer experience, and paying attention to the ancient business wisdom of the 1970’s and 1980’s.

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Key takeaways

• The most important thing that we can do in terms of evolving DevOps at this point, is focusing on improved productivity
  
• We’re finally starting to stop speculating about whether a better developer experience yields better productivity results and actually starting to make investments
  
• Pay attention to the ancient business wisdom of the 1970’s and 1980’s
  
• If you really want to understand DevOps and SRE, if you really want to understand improving your value stream; Go back to the original architects, lean manufacturing, the theory of constraints–all of this philosophy has just annealed into the work that we’re doing now in DevOps