The Convergence of DevOps
IT Revolution by John Willis · · Article
John Willis's history of how DevOps came together: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup as the three threads that converged.
John Willis traces three parallel threads that converged into DevOps: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup. He credits the Velocity thread to a 2007 O'Reilly Radar post by Jesse Robbins and a Tim O'Reilly follow-up, and covers the first US DevOpsDays at Mountain View in 2010.
John traces three threads that ran in parallel in the late 2000s and converged into the DevOps movement: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup. Patrick Debois, Andrew Clay Shafer, and the agile system administration community on one strand. The Velocity Conference at O’Reilly on another. Eric Ries and the Lean Startup community on a third.
The Velocity strand at O’Reilly grew out of a 2007 Radar post I wrote applying the technical-debt frame to operations and a Tim O’Reilly follow-up titled “Operations: The New Secret Sauce.” DevOpsDays Mountain View 2010, organized by Patrick, John Willis, Andrew Clay Shafer, and Damon Edwards, was the first US DevOpsDays. I was honored to be there.
Further Reading
- Operations Is a Competitive Advantage — The 2007 O’Reilly Radar post in the Velocity thread
- The Art of Web Operations — Jesse Robbins and John Allspaw at Velocity 2009
- GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction — USENIX LISA’11
- 5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement — DevOpsANGLE’s analysis
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