DevOps, it’s a term that has been used a lot lately. It specifically began as a term to define the need for computer programmers, and their IT staff, to work closely together. So that code, releases, and hardware changes all happened together in harmony. It was a movement to raise awareness that the old days, of developers tossing code to the operations team, and then the operations team complaining that the code didn’t work … simply wasn’t not a sustainable model for web development. So much of the code systems themselves now needed to be tightly locked with the infrastructure.

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