Quote by Gene Kim

“We cannot achieve deployments on demand if each of our production code deployments take weeks or months to perform (i.e., each deployment requires 1,300…

— Gene Kim

“Many operations are reluctant to abandon the option of on-premises production in case the quality, availability, or cost of the prepared items fails to…

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“My heart lurches as all the implications sink in. I’ve seen this movie before. The plot is simple: First, you take an urgent date-driven…

— Gene Kim

“In order to create fast and reliable flow from Dev to Ops, we must ensure that we always use production-like environments at every stage…

— Gene Kim

“Ensure releases can always be performed during normal business hours with zero downtime.”

— Gene Kim

“The key thing we should care about is not the form, but the outcomes: deployments should be low-risk, push-button events we can perform on…

— Gene Kim

Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

— Jack Keane

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

— Eric Ries

We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the…

— Eric Metcalf

“Every product comes with a time limit. If you delay your product launch, somebody else could launch a similar product in that time, making…

— Pooja Agnihotri

“Greenfield DevOps projects are often pilots to demonstrate feasibility of public or private clouds, piloting deployment automation, and similar tools. An example of a…

— Gene Kim

“If “ship early, ship often” is interpreted as the willingness to expose not-quite-feature-complete but well-tested products to the healthy pressures of real users, everybody…

— Peter Lucas