In 2008, Patrick Debois laid the foundations for DevOps at an Agile conference in Toronto. He was trying to come up with a solution for the inherent conflicts between developers and system admins. Both disciplines seemed to be at odds: developers wanted to release software more frequently, but system admins wanted to ensure stability, performance, and scalability. While this conflict isn’t necessarily black and white, it highlighted the need for developers and system admins to no longer consider themselves as mutually exclusive roles, but rather as cross-functional partners.
A year later, Paul Hammond and John Allspaw gave a talk at the Velocity ‘09 conference that highlighted the necessity for cooperation between Dev and Ops. This inspired Debois to coin the term “DevOps” (#DevOps)…
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