English edit

 
A Venn diagram showing DevOps as the intersection of development (software engineering), operations and quality assurance (QA)

Etymology edit

Blend of dev(elopment) +‎ op(eration)s.

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  • Hyphenation: Dev‧Ops

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DevOps (uncountable)

  1. (software engineering) A software development method that stresses communication and collaboration between software developers and other information technology professionals.
    • 2018, Alex Braunton, Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant: Implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 11:
      DevOps is a popular term in the IT world at the moment. There are many different opinions as to what DevOps actually is. In simple terms, DevOps is the mix of development and operations. It is essentially creating a sort of "hybrid programmer" []

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