Your DevOps Pipeline Is Not a Strategy

Build or Buy? This is the question every CTO has to face at some point. Do you opt to use IaaS or PaaS, do you opt to build your own pipeline or buy an off the shelf platform? Most CTOs will pick a lane and go all in, but I think that’s a mistake and a missed opportunity. There are risks and tradeoffs involved when you choose a single lane and the smart CTOs know it. Think of it like this, you’re not a CTO but the head engineer of a race team. Do you choose to focus all of your attention on just the engine? Of course not, you tune the whole car, working on the engine, the steering and the suspension. Now imagine you’re tuning your architecture, the smart CTOs are focusing on every layer available to them, not just going all in on IaaS. As a CTO you have access to a lot of tools spread across the three different layers of architecture, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. It’s important to remember, these layers aren’t competitors, they’re complementary, the goal isn’t to choose the right layer, it’s t