Once you’ve built your new web site, you’ll want to put it somewhere people can see it and use it. However, waiting until the build is complete to do this is often too late—the way a web site is deployed can add additional constraints on how you build it. For example, if you’re building an app for horizontal scale, then you can’t store sessions in memory. If you’re handling files that are being uploaded from users, then the size of your hard drive can make a huge difference.
At the heart of the DevOps movement is the idea that developers no longer “throw something over the wall” to operations ...
