Where DevOps Came From

One hundred years from now, historians will look back at this decade and conclude that something transformative happened: how we worked inside Development and IT Operations changed completely.… I predict that historians will call this decade the “Cambrian explosion for IT,” a time of incredible innovation and disruption when, 50 years after the birth of computing, we finally learned what technology was good for.

—John Willis, Cohost of “DevOps Cafe” podcast

The term “devops” was originally coined by Patrick Debois and Andrew Shafer in 2008,8 and it entered common usage in 2009 in the Velocity Conference community with the famous “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr” presentation, given by John Allspaw ...

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