DevOps Dozen 2023 – Community Award Winners

This award honors organizations that have successfully adopted and implemented DevOps principles and practices.

“The Best DevOps Industry Implementation was awarded to St. James Place which implemented DevOps across the enterprise revolutionizing their processes and resulting in significant improvements. Well done!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

St James’s Place DevOps Implementation – We embraced a transformative DevOps journey to enhance operations, resolving complex challenges with innovative solutions. Our efforts resulted in a comprehensive digital solution, revolutionizing our processes and adhering to best practices. Through the integration of feature branching, automated unit testing, and Pipelines, we efficiently managed Salesforce’s intricacies, ensuring smooth deployments, strong automation, and thorough monitoring.

This award recognizes research that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.

“For almost a decade, DORA’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report has set industry standard DevOps metrics and helped organizations identify areas for improvement. They are very deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Accelerate State of DevOps Report – Accelerate State of DevOps Report summarizes multi-year, platform-agnostic, rigorous research into the cultural, process, and technical capabilities that predict performance in technology-driven organizations.

Healthy cultures, user-centric approaches, and high-quality documentation positively impact an organization’s overall performance.

DORA’s software delivery metrics are an industry standard and the framework helps organizations identify improvement areas and create sustainable success.

This category highlights the most entertaining, educational and inspirational DevOps video series—those with the most engaging and highest-quality content.

“The DevOps Exchange YouTube channel has established itself as a source for the latest tools, practices, and methodologies that are defining the current DevOps landscape.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

DevOps Exchange YouTube Channel – The DevOps Exchange YouTube channel is an educational powerhouse featuring insights from top experts within the DevOps community. It’s evolved into a visionary platform, providing valuable content from over 170 technical videos, with 3-4 monthly uploads. It covers diverse topics and features tutorials and expert interviews and fosters a sense of community and innovation. The series is not just informative; it’s a driving force behind DevOps progress, innovation, and collaboration.

Which is your favorite DevOps podcast from this year? In addition to DevOps Chats there are many podcasts focusing on a multitude of topics from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more.

“The DevOps Paradox podcast is one of the leading technology-related podcasts for developers. Darin and Viktor, cover each topic from several different perspectives to create a comprehensive picture of each topic. Keep it up!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

DevOps Paradox – The “DevOps Paradox” podcast is among the best technology-related podcasts. It gives the audience several new perspectives with the right amount of breadth and depth. It is my go-to source for analysis of technology topics.

Each year sees a plethora of well-crafted DevOps-related books and ebooks. This category highlights the most popular and best read of the year.

“IT Revolutions’ book Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster shows readers how applying Agile and DevOps ways of working into cyber-physical systems presents the opportunity to reap huge rewards. This book was very deserving of this award in a year with several great books/ebooks.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster by Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman – Applying the theory, practice, and learnings from Agile and DevOps as it has been applied in the software community, has the potential to dramatically improve the development and delivery of cyber-physical systems. Companies that solve this problem will increase transparency, reduce cycle time, increase value for money, and innovate faster. Simply, they will build better systems faster, and they will become the ultimate economic and value delivery winners in the marketplace.

This category is one of our favorites. There are so many great evangelists who spread the DevOps gospel, and we want to know who does it best. Nominees can work within the DevOps space or outside of it.

“We have followed Fatima at GitLab for several years. She specializes in CI/CD, community building, and evangelizing AI-powered workflows. Her passion for open source and building more inclusive tech communities makes her a standout and an extremely worthy winner.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Fatima Sarah Khalid – Fatima Sarah Khalid is a Developer Evangelist at GitLab, and passionate about building more inclusive tech communities. Her keynote talk on allyship, The Power in the Choices We Have earned her two prestigious invitations in 2023. She was invited to keynote the Open Source Summit EU, the premier event for more than 2,000 open source technologists, alongside leaders from Amazon, Fujitsu, and Google. Fatima also led the keynote at All Things Open, one of the largest open source events in the US.

As digital transformation accelerates, which organizations stood out in their efforts to transform their business through DevOps?

“This is a great DevOps Transformation story representing a remarkable odyssey that harnessed a mix of ingenious strategies and open-source tools to elevate deployment efficiency, lower costs, fortify security, automate crucial operations, and streamline overall performance. Congrats to them!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Pera People Science B.V – This DevOps transformation, we optimised software delivery, prioritised security, and automation with GitHub Actions. Impressive results includes fewer PagerDuty tickets, ensuring efficiency and resilience. By adopting a combination of advanced techniques and open-source solutions, this transformation not only reduced deployment downtime but also optimised AWS costs significantly.

Now that things are starting to return to normal, this category includes both in-person and virtual events.. Which DevOps event stands out from the others?

“Jfrog’s swamUP conference has always been a bright star in the DevOps community bringing together some of the world’s leading corporations for the annual event. Nicely done!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

swampUP – JFrog brings the DevOps community and some of the world’s leading corporations together for the annual swampUP conference, aimed at providing real solutions to developers and development teams in practical ways to prepare us all for what’s coming next.

Open source projects are meant to promote innovation and increase efficiency, velocity and quality. While there are many great open source projects out there, the best ones are those that create a community of people who work on and with the technology and support each other.

“The Jenkins open source project represents one of the greatest open source projects of all time, and another great project from the Linux Foundation. It is an industry standard now boasting over 11 million Jenkins developers around the world. Congrats to The Butler!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Jenkins – Jenkins is the leading open source automation server. Using an extensible, plugin-based architecture, developers have created 1,800+ plugins to enable Jenkins to integrate with a multitude of build, test and deployment technologies. Growth in Jenkins Pipeline adoption for CI/CD process automation grew 79% from June 2021 “ June 2023, while total workloads on Jenkins during the same period grew by 45%.

This category celebrates excellence among DevOps leaders at the C-suite (or equivalent) levels. (Non-Vendor)

“Garima is an executive thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies and is the founder of the DevOps Community of Practice in Canada. She also leads the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. She has over two decades of experience leading large-scale R&D teams guiding their adoption of DevOps. She is very deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Garima Bajpai – Garima is thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada, supported by Crowdbyte Solutions Inc. She leads the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. Some might know her as a course contributor and instructor for various DevOps courses from leading certification bodies. She has over two decades of experience leading large-scale R&D with a variety of teams and has helped them adapt DevOps to incr

This category recognizes the best DevOps-themed presentation from the many conferences held during the year.

“Tony and Mark led this audience-interactive session, discussing ChatOps, event-driven architecture for mainframe DevOps, mainframe API layers, and change management automation. A well received presentation and deserving of this award!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

It’s Time to Rip Off the Training Wheels and Enable End-to-End Automation – Mainframe organizations are moving to modern source code management (SCM) systems that enable agility and parallel development with automated build, test, deploy, and orchestration tools. Now it is time to take this to the next level and rip the training wheels off. In this audience-interactive session, Tony and Mark discussed ChatOps and real-time event notification, creating an event-driven architecture for mainframe DevOps, mainframe API layers, and change management automation.

DevOps.com publishes multiple new articles every day. Which was the best article from this year? Let us know so we can recognize the author.

“It’s not easy integrating security practices into every phase of DevOps. This article underscores the vital role of security throughout the software development process ultimately reducing risk. Well done!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

DevSecOps: The Fusion of Security and DevOps for Enhanced Software Security by Muneesh Sharma – Our DevSecOps approach effortlessly integrates security practices into the DevOps framework, underscoring the vital role of security throughout the software development process. This method automates security procedures to ensure the consistent implementation of security measures throughout the development lifecycle. By merging security with DevOps, organizations gain the capability to proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities, ultimately reducing the risk of breaches.