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DevOps as the Ultimate Panacea?

Truth without love is cruel, and love without truth is foolish. - Sam Leung Those of you who follow me on Twitter (@foolomon) know that I tweet industry news relating to DevOps and other topics (such as Information Security, IoT, etc.).  Based on the sheer number of articles that I come across but do not tweet about, you would be justified in believing that DevOps is still the darling child when it comes to marrying application-based functionality with the business value it should be aligned with. "What if I told you," Morpheus might ask, "that DevOps is not the panacea you think it is?" "What, what?" you exclaim.  "I thought DevOps is the be-all, end-all of application development!  'Continuous delivery' is the way to go, man!"  Bear with me while I explain myself. Recently, I read an article in Forbes that said something quite profound: "people don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit; they want a quarter-inch hole.&quo