As the Parabeac team explores new tools and processes for enhancing application development we see an impending inflection point in the story of developer technology. Agile processes and DevOps tools have become mature contributors to the evolution of developer operations but recent innovations in DevOps foretell a brand new family of developer technologies that we call Continuous Design / Continuous Integration (CD/CI). If we are to exploit this trend we need to understand exactly how our industry has gotten to this turning point and what it means that we are here. The starting point is recent innovations and what they tell us about what’s still to come.

DevOps Innovations

DevOps is the term used for the tooling infrastructure surrounding Agile methodology and it enhanced much of the development process by automating & integrating operations. Its key contribution was making processes continuous. Legacy DevOps tools address different parts of the Agile development cycle: tools that enable teams to regularly add changes and deploy projects (Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment); support consistent progress as a project is designed, developed, tested, integrated, and deployed (Issue Management); enabling a single point of truth (Distributed Hosting); etc.

But most exciting are the recent innovations around the Design and Build layer. Design and Build include low code/no code innovations, code generation, and handoff tools all of which address the designer/developer workflow but in very distinct ways.

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