A Quick Summary of DevOps

What exactly is DevOps? DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support. ( http://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/ ) Like Agile, it's a rather large topic, but the main point of it is that developers work much more closely with Operations to ensure a more resilient release cycle. It's also characterised by Operations using many of the same techniques as developers - for example: source control, automation, and of course the Agile methodology. Adopted by all the big tech companies, DevOps allows for hyper-efficient deployments with much faster releases and far less production issues. In fact, the highest performers use DevOps to do 30x more deployments, 8000 times faster, 2x more successful, with 12x faster Mean Time To Repair than the worst performers (those who aren't using DevOps). As a result, Amazon deploy to Production e