Most IT managers get the request to increase the speed of delivering new functionality. But they are held back by long delivery times of new database and middleware environments. And when these environments are delivered, they cannot even guarantee that they work. The amount of time wasted on setup, and deployment of the environments is often underestimated or even ignored by teams and managers. Manual server management and application deployment are a huge waste of time and money. And performing these tasks manually is often prone to error and thus a big risk for uptime of production. Software quality is not only about good tests and good code inspection. The deployment and setup are equally important for the quality of an application. And this is where many teams could still achieve huge productivity gains.
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