Over the last several years, software development has evolved from deploying products periodically to building them on an ongoing basis using CI servers. A company's end product may be built on a daily or even hourly basis. This means that DevOps must support the continual flow of code from the individual developer's machine to the organization's production environment.

Two numbers are shaking the foundations of business. What do these two figures mean to your business? They mean that, odds are your competitive landscape is irrevocably changed - already. To start, expectations for delivery speed for new products, services, and everything are faster. The new table stakes in the DevOps world have raised the bar on collaboration, cross-organizational visibility, efficiency, even company culture. Another thing these two simple stats mean is that most businesses are already there, or heading there now.