I&#x27;m not sure I agree (insofar as CI is in our DNA and CD is what we&#x27;re trying to make normal). To me the point of PaaS is to remove the need for a specialist gatekeeper in the feedback loop.<p>It makes Ops happy by isolating the damage Devs can do. It makes Devs happy by removing Ops roadblocks and allowing Devs to see, immediately and directly, what their apps are doing.<p>Classic ops culture emerged because computing was an expensive shared resource. Early tooling favoured <i>utilisation</i> over <i>isolation</i> because the latter is expensive. So it became possible for devs to accidentally or deliberately step on each other&#x27;s toes. Ops was like the mature adult in a shared house: making sure everyone kept their junk out of the living room, restocking the bathroom, insisting that dishes get washed.<p>With a PaaS that changes radically. Devs can&#x27;t burst out of the box they assign themselves, subject to Ops-set resource pools. Ops hands Devs keys to personal apartments that are created on demand. What they do inside is up to them, Ops needn&#x27;t worry or care.