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Moving to DevOps

For several years now, DevOps has been one of the hype words, due to the desire to run development and operations of company software with more efficiency and predictability. This often takes the form of dumping operators into a development team and subsequently declaring it 'done'.  Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. What is DevOps So, this is a tricky one. In its most basic form, it's just the contraction of Development and Operations, but the more important idea is that there is a fluent integration between both disciplines. Developers who understand operations and take that knowledge into account when building software, operators understanding software and influencing how it is made and deployed. We've been here before In a way, DevOps is nothing new in the world of software development. We used to have other roles that were formally separated back in the dark ages of waterfall style software development. Information analysts, functional designer, p