> I’ve always considered DevOps to be Developer/Operator - as in - you run the stuff you build This is also exactly how i've always understood the term, and it

> I’ve always considered DevOps to be Developer/Operator - as in - you run the stuff you build This is also exactly how i've always understood the term, and it makes perfect sense. But the origin of the term is indeed in distinct dev and ops people working more closely together. The origin story is basically Patrick Debois watching this talk, and then turning the title into a noun: https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-a... I think the devs-do-ops idea was also floating around at the time (i was doing in in 2008!), somehow got swept up into the movement.