The term "DevOps" was originally coined to mean organizing teams so that development and operations were merged. That is, development teams were responsible for

The term "DevOps" was originally coined to mean organizing teams so that development and operations were merged. That is, development teams were responsible for writing, deploying and operating services. It was a reaction to the then-common system where development and ops were separate. But it was quickly coopted to be "ops, but cooler" because these sysadmins write code too. And then even that definition started to get coopted by people using it for other things. These days it can mean anything. Frankly, I see it as a small red flag. Anyone who uses it is basically jumping on yesterday's trendy jargon, and that's not a good sign.