Running an effective and highly optimized software development and delivery organization is a demanding job. As the level of automation increases, the DevOps toolchain becomes more extensive and the maintenance and support tasks get more complex along the way. Maintenance work creates a real burden on the development team and significantly reduces their delivery efficiency. This is called the “DevOps tax”, and it’s estimated to be about 10% of a team’s total work.

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