DevOps in Large Companies... Is it Possible?

If you're a developer in a large organization, it can often seem like Ops thinks their job is to STOP you from actually getting work done. In places like this, words like "Agile", "DevOps" and "Innovation" are paid lip service to, while projects struggle through multi-year release cycles.

Is DevOps in a large company even possible? We'll examine some of the technical and cultural barriers to DevOps in large companies, how technologies like PaaS, microservices, and Docker fit in, and what you, as a developer, can do to change things.