Continuous integration and deployment, monitoring and logging, and security and privacy—FP Complete’s comprehensive, easy to understand guide designed to help you learn why those three DevOps strategies collectively create an environment where high-quality software can be developed quicker and more efficiently than ever before.

Aaron Contorer, founder and chairman of FP Complete, presented the following webinar. Read below for a transcript of the video.

Introducing Aaron

I’m the Founder and Chairman of FP Complete,

where we help companies use

state-of-the-art tools and techniques to

produce secure, lightning-fast,

feature-rich software, faster and more

often.

Before founding FP Complete, I was an

executive at Microsoft, where I served as

program manager for distributed systems,

and general manager of Visual C++, the

leading software development tool at that

time. Also, I architected MSN’s move

to Internet-based server software, served

as the full-time technology adviser to

Bill Gates, and I founded and ran the

company’s Productivity Tools Team for

complex software engineering

projects.

Okay, so enough about me. Let’s begin

this presentation by stating the

obvious:

Software development is complicated

As information technology and software

people, it’s easy to recognize how things

are changing at an astonishing speed. To

keep pace, we need tools and processes

that allow us to rapidly deploy better

code more frequently with fewer errors.

Is that a high bar to reach? Yes, of

course, it is. But it absolutely must be

met—that is if you

want your company to survive.

Inefficiencies are everywhere

In most companies, I would argue that

the information technology team and the

software engineering team are not totally

trusted by the rest of the company.

Of course, I don’t mean they’re not

trusted as in they’re not good, smart

people. What I mean is that they don’t

meet their deadlines, leading to sprints

becoming longer than initially expected,

ultimately causing everyone to feel

rushed and end results lacking in

quality.

IT has lost management’s trust

When management begins to not trust

engineering and IT, a bad dynamic

develops. No longer does the team get to

focus on building great things for their

end-users. Instead, they’re forced to

focus on solving their struggles and

dealing with interpersonal friction.

Believe it or not, the problems we’re

having aren’t people-problems. It’s not

that they lack good intentions or

brainpower.

Instead, the problem is this:

Modern software, ancient tech

Modern software development can’t be performed using ancient technologies applied within simplistic workflows.

I often like to say…

“The best craftsperson with a

handsaw cannot do woodworking as

efficiently as a robotic cutting

tool.”

When we automate our work, it becomes

faster and easier to replicate. We don’t

build in lots of mistakes. As a result,

we get to move on with our lives instead

of going back and reworking things over

and over again.

When we automate with good tools and

better processes programmed in, and we

repeat this same process every time,

everyone can trust that our work will be

performed with quality, and our systems

will be more safe and secure.

Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? Of course,

it does.

But how do you do it? How do you

evolve from the environment you’re

operating in today to the utopia DevOps

strategies will allow you to live and

work within well into the future?

Learn more about how FP Complete does DevOps.