Culture

The Birth and Evolution of DevOps DevOps officially took shape in 2008, when Belgian IT consultant Patrick Debois organized the first “DevOpsDays” conference. It was inspired by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond’s influential Velocity presentation, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr,” delivered that same year. At the time, development and operations teams in many organizations often worked toward conflicting goals. Development teams wanted to release new features quickly, while operations teams focused on maintaining system stability. Because of this misalignment, software deployments often happened only every few weeks or months, and each release became a painful event. ...