Since the first release of the publication in 2011, Puppet has annually surveyed professionals across the globe to examine the latest relevant DevOps trends and adoption statistics.

DevOps does more than just combining Agile development concepts with IT operations. DevOps streamlines the process of developing and deploying apps in cloud environments in such a way that it actually shortens the development life cycle by a significant margin.

The amount of data a single business collects, processes, and stores is rapidly increasing exponentially by the day. A growing company relies so much on data from various sources that turning to data lakes and larger databases as solutions is the next logical step.

“prepare for a future where we’re as stupid as we were today.” -The DevOps Handbook

Like most startups,