Or is is DevOps? Regardless, it still looks like an ugly name to me. I’ve been hearing this word for two days now, and nobody ever bothers to define it, nor give the derivation of the word. From context, the word is clearly combined from Development and Operations, and seems to refer to managing operations for applications deployed in the cloud.
It seems like a good idea to me. I know I have long found that developers with some operations experience, or at least perspective, really bring a lot to the creation of easily deployed and managed systems.
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