Fast moving application development teams increasingly leverage the flexible capacity and operational efficiency of the cloud to increase agility. Experiences with cloud-based lower-level environments are an opportunity to re-architect IT processes and establish new security policies, increasing knowledge and confidence when it’s time to migrate production workloads.

This is a time to optimize DevOps workflows and remove overhead that will hinder cloud adoption and scale in the future. The same should be true for the data pipeline that feeds the release train.