Methodology

The Birth and Evolution of DevOps DevOps officially began in 2008 when Belgian IT consultant Patrick Debois organized the “DevOpsDays” conference. This was inspired by the revolutionary presentation “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr” by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond from Flickr at the Velocity Conference that same year. At that time, development and operations teams typically pursued conflicting goals in most organizations. Development teams wanted to deploy new features quickly while operations teams sought to maintain system stability. This conflicting incentive structure meant software deployments occurred only every few weeks or months and were painful events. ...