WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Oct 12, 2020

Improving Developer Happiness with GitOps

Lars Hesel Christensen , Basil Brunner

Centralized ticketing labyrinths destroy engineering productivity and stall feature delivery. Discover how a decentralized GitOps workflow condenses 22 manual API touchpoints into one automated pipeline, supercharging developer happiness.

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