Research of Approaches to Software Development with DevOps in Mind

Abstract

Software delivery has shifted from project-centric release events toward product-centric, continuously evolving socio-technical systems. Under this shift, DevOps is treated not as a slogan, but as an operating logic that couples architectural modularity, automation, and organizational design into a single delivery system. The argument developed here is that the practical strength of DevOps emerges when three domains are engineered together: (1) flow design across the value stream, (2) reliability and risk management at runtime, and (3) governance of change through versioned, auditable control planes. The results are synthesized into a comparative framework of DevOps-oriented development approaches and a prescriptive reference architecture that integrates CI, CD, GitOps-style operations, and DevSecOps controls aligned with recognized security guidance. The discussion emphasizes causal pathways: why certain combinations of practices improve throughput and stability simultaneously, why platform engineering tends to become the “hidden variable” that mediates developer experience, and why measurement must remain multi-dimensional rather than reduced to a single productivity proxy.