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A brief history of DevOps

Seth Vargo
April 29, 2014

A brief history of DevOps

These are the slides from my talk given at Carnegie Mellon University, Information Systems in 2014. It covers a brief history of the evolution of DevOps, with close ties back to the Information Systems program.

Seth Vargo

April 29, 2014
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  1. HOW DO ORGANIZATIONS RUN LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS IN PRODUCTION WITH A

    TEAM OF DEVELOPERS WHILE DEPLOYING CHANGES HUNDREDS OF TIMES PER DAY WITHOUT BREAKING THINGS?
  2. COMPUTERS USED PRIMARILY BY CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR CRITICAL

    APPLICATIONS, BULK DATA PROCESSING SUCH AS CENSUS, INDUSTRY AND CONSUMER STATSISTICS, ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND TRANSACTION PROCESSING.
  3. $$$

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  5. HUMANS COLLABORATED TO CREATE AND MANAGE APPLICATIONS IN A TEAM,

    AND THEN PUSH THAT CODE OVER THE “OPERATIONS WALL” AND IT BECAME SOMEONE ELSE’S PROBLEM.
  6. BUILD NEW FEATURES KEEP SHIT RUNNING CONFIRMED INCOME SOURCE POTENTIAL

    INCOME SOURCE CLOSE TO STAKEHOLDERS FAR FROM STAKEHOLDERS
  7. THIS WAS A CAUSE OF TENSION AND SOURCE OF DISAGREEMENT

    BETWEEN DEVELOPERS AND SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS THAT ULTIMATELY HURT THE BUSINESS.