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DevOps: Threat or Menace? (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the buzzwords-make-the-world-go-round dept.

The title above is a joke. Mostly. We've heard so much about DevOps -- good, bad, and indifferent -- from so many people who contradict each other, that we turned to Alan Zeichick, one of the world's most experienced IT analysts, to tell us what DevOps is and isn't, how it can help get work done (and done right), how it can hinder progress, and how to make sure DevOps is a help, not a hindrance, if you or your employers decide to implement DevOps yourselves at some point.

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  1. What about the cloud? by bsdasym · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's what "DevOps" is to me. A meaningless buzzword. I did once see a "DevOps guy" lauded as some kind of hero for changing a haproxy configuration and reloading it.

  2. DevOps my understanding by Mybrid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hi! Happy Tuesday

    My understanding is that DevOps was coined by a manager at Etsy who recruited developers for managing IOPs and other costs in the Amazon cloud via software designed to do just that. DevOps meant someone who was saavy enough to write system level code.

    Somewhere along the way this notion got morphed into being the system administrator and the developer.

    DevOps:
    1. Developers optimizing Amazon and other cloud environment costs by using application code specialized to manage system administration aspects of the cloud; including managing switches, spinning up VMs, etc.
    2. Developers with system administration responsibilities.

    The reality is that Etsy moved off of Amazon to an in-house data center and left us with a messy legacy of a term, DevOps. :-)