From the course: Cloud DevOps Concepts: Understanding Processes and Services

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Origins and value of DevOps

Origins and value of DevOps

From the course: Cloud DevOps Concepts: Understanding Processes and Services

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Origins and value of DevOps

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- [Narrator] The origin of DevOps can be traced back to the period when IT operations and software development communities began to voice concerns. What concerns they were about the levels of dysfunction observed in the industry. Traditional software development practices kept developers separate from operations. This separation and vision and goals often led to teams with differing objectives, which resulted in inefficiencies and communication breakdowns down the line. The compounding misalignment resulted in slower development processes and in product software that lacked the quality and innovation it needed to compete in the market. Moreover, they lacked the agility to keep up with the demands for software changes required to fix problems. Enter the DevOps movement. DevOps focuses on enhancing collaboration and communication between software developers and IT operations. The objective was to break down these silos and thus improve the speed and quality of software delivery. DevOps…

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