On the surface, the best-of-suite solution seems to make more sense; it means fewer tools to manage and, hopefully, savings due to working with a single vendor.
However, this practice shows otherwise—over and over again.
Let’s look at a real-world example. Have you driven a family mini-van? To me, it is a good symbolization of the best-in-suite product. It tries to be everything: It has a decent engine, and you can even add a towing hitch. However, it’s not a car that will help you win a race or haul your boat easily. Convenience makes families choose a mini-van, but they quickly realize it comes with significant shortcomings.
[…] The results published by the CD Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation) in its State of Continuous Delivery Report published in May confirms my thesis.
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According to the latest State of Continuous Delivery report from the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the adoption of DevOps is continuing to increase, with 84% of developers participating in DevOps activities in the first quarter of the year.
However, the report also found that code velocity has remained steady for the past two years, with about 15% of teams being considered top performers, meaning they have lead times of less than one day.
The CDF believes that while DevOps may be a help, it is likely the increasing complexity of projects that is slowing things down.
We sponsored the State of DevOps Report by Puppet again this year. They’ve been researching DevOps and publishing this report for over 10 years! This time around, the focus of the report was around the rising trend of Platform Engineering.
If you want to hear a panel discussing the results, listen to the podcast.
🎙️ Pulling the Strings: The Future of Platform Engineering
Panelists:
- Ben Ford
- Fatih Degirmenci
- Kaspar von Grünberg
- Nigel Kersten
- Ronan Keenan


