It didn't invent the term. John Allspaw and Paul Hammond maybe did, in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOe18KhtT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld

It didn't invent the term. John Allspaw and Paul Hammond maybe did, in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOe18KhtT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOe18KhtT4 (from the comments, I guess this talk is actually referenced in the book?) Other places credit Patrick Debois who ran the first devopsday in the same year: https://newrelic.com/devops/what-is-devops https://newrelic.com/devops/what-is-devops