DevOps

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Definition

A culture where developers and operations teams work together in harmony, much like cats and dogs would if you put them in the same room and told them to collaborate. In practice, it means one person does both jobs for the salary of neither.

Example Usage

"We're adopting DevOps," the VP said, which the team correctly interpreted as "we're firing half the ops team and giving the developers their pagers."

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