/ˈdɛv.ɒps/
Definition
A cultural movement designed to bring Development and Operations together in perfect harmony—by giving everyone enough access to destroy production equally. In theory, it promotes collaboration and shared ownership; in practice, it distributes both blame and burnout at scale.
Common Manifestations
- Developers deploying directly to prod “for speed.”
- Operations staff attending stand-ups they don’t understand but fear to skip.
- Incident reports beginning with “Well, technically, DevOps approved it…”
- A CI/CD pipeline so automated that no one knows how it works—or how to stop it.
- Managers proudly saying “We’re all DevOps now,” just before everything goes down.
Usage Example
“Since adopting DevOps, we’ve halved our deployment times and doubled our incident frequency. Success!”
HR Guidance
DevOps is best practiced with empathy, guardrails, and unlimited caffeine. When outages occur, hold a Blameless Post-Mortem and remember the golden rule: shared responsibility means shared plausible deniability.