Bottom-up DevOps initiatives are a wonderful way of bringing about positive change to application teams. A common danger is that local efforts can lead to local optimization. At some point, grassroots efforts start to build their own technical debt which hamper their initial promise and extinguish the teams’ excitement. Quali CTO, Maya Ber Lerner will discuss common life cycles of bottoms up DevOps projects and their use of specific open source and commercial tools as well as pros and cons of each.