IT Glossary
What is DevOps?
The culture and practices that merge software development (Dev) with operations (Ops) — one team builds the system and keeps it alive.
The software industry spent decades with a structural conflict: developers wanted frequent change (new features), system administrators wanted no change at all (stability) — and between them, blame tossed over a wall: “the code was fine, the server is at fault”. DevOps is the demolition of that wall: the same team builds the application and operates it in production, with automation as the common language — automated delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure defined as code (servers are written, not hand-configured), permanent monitoring, and incident reviews without witch hunts. The result, measured year after year by industry studies: DevOps teams release far more frequently and run more stable systems at the same time — speed and reliability stop paying for each other. For you the relevance surfaces at procurement: a vendor with DevOps practices ships your changes in days and spots problems before your customers do; one without publishes manually, rarely, and learns about outages from your phone call. The test question: “who operates the application after launch, and how do they find out about problems?”
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Why it matters for your business
Delivery and stability together
Automation removes exactly the human errors that caused outages — frequent changes and rare downtime, simultaneously.
Problems seen before customers see them
Monitoring and alerting come as part of the package — the vendor calls you first, with the incident already being handled.
One owner instead of ping-pong
The team that wrote the code also runs it — the classic “not us, it's the hosting” that stretched every incident is gone.
Frequently asked questions
Is DevOps a technology I buy or a way of working?
A way of working supported by tools: the culture (one team, end-to-end responsibility) is the essence; the tools (CI/CD, containers, monitoring) are the means. That's why “we bought a DevOps platform” without changing how people work never produces the promised effects.
What is a DevOps engineer, and why do vendor offers mention one?
The specialist in automating delivery and operations: building the CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring. Offers mention the role because someone must make the road from code to production smooth; on small projects it's partly carried by senior developers.
How can I tell whether my vendor practices DevOps or merely claims it?
Ask for verifiable facts: how often they release to production (days versus quarters), how they learn of incidents (alerting versus your phone call), how long reverting to the prior release takes, whether automated test environments exist. Concrete answers can't be faked.
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