When you start down the road to continuous testing, even if you increase speed, performance tests can still hold up production deployments. By using application monitoring, service virtualization, and open source performance testing tools, performance testing is accounted for in every cycle of development.

Container-based deployments have become the preferred approach for managing the build and release of complex applications. Many of the tasks handled by IT operations today may not be necessary in the world of containers. Will Ops continue in its current role, or will it need to evolve with the new challenges?

Organizations that refuse to change will get left behind. But at the other end of the spectrum, too much change is also harmful. Revamping everything you do at once creates stress and can lead to your efforts failing. The right balance is shaking things up just often enough to experiment with new ideas.