Businesses are drawn to DevOps because it improves agility, responsiveness, and quality.

A: The growth of IoT requires scalable, automated, and reliable delivery processes.

B: Fast, intelligent decision-making is needed to respond to market changes.

D: The shift toward valuing customer outcomes over products is central to modern service delivery.

However,Cis a misconception. While automation is a key DevOps practice, the goal isstrategic automation—automating where it adds measurable value, improves quality, or accelerates delivery. “Automate all the things” without consideration can waste resources, increase complexity, and reduce adaptability.