From the course: DevOps Foundations: Your First Project

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Your application, post-DevOps

Your application, post-DevOps

After losing another 7% of their traffic to Explore Texas during the last high season, the CTO of Explore California and her team decided that something had to change. After spending two weeks building a value stream map outlining how new features reach customers, she learned that it takes six months for customers to see changes to Explore California. Explore Texas, on the other hand, adds new things to their website every week. She knew they could do better. She created a challenge for engineering, product and operations in hope of fixing this problem: "Build and deploy the smallest change you can to production in two days." Though extremely challenging, Explore California engineering rose to the challenge. Devs learned about how Docker containers make it easy to test Prod-like instances of Explore on their own machines. After seeing how much faster containers made things, every dev team tripled down on it. By moving Explore California to Docker container images and using Docker…

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