By Steve Brodie
Another clear point that was made at Collision was that digital transformation is disrupting every industry. We now see DevOps as a means for the newest startups to now disrupt the disruptors of a decade ago. Executives of organizations that have already adopted Agile initiatives recognize DevOps and Continuous Delivery as an evolution and extension of Agile development. Whereas, Agile historically focused on improving development productivity and responsiveness, 
the biggest opportunity for improvement now lies in the downstream processes after the developer checks-in the code, including build, test, infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.
DevOps is a way to accelerate and improve outcomes of software-driven innovation and address the challenges that a digital transformation poses. To quote Marc Andreesen, “software is eating the world.” You see this across nearly every industry and this concept rang true in what many of the speakers at the conference wound up discussing.
In my co-panelist’s, Jason Bloomberg, commentary and description of the conference, he highlighted what I also found most impressive from the conference: the speakers. “Where else can you hobnob with the likes of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Rackspace uber-networker Robert Scoble, or VC legend Tim Draper over pineapple and wheat grass smoothies?”
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