Over the last decade, “shift left” became the mantra of high-performing engineering organizations. The premise was sound: Move testing, security, and compliance earlier (to the left) in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to catch issues when they are cheapest to fix.
Business leaders loved it because it promised efficiency. Security teams loved it because it promised compliance by design.
Unfortunately for us, nobody asked the developers.
As a CEO with a background in revenue operations turned technical leader in the DevOps space,…

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