5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement

Klint Finley wrote this for SiliconANGLE in April 2012, picking up John Willis's argument that the DevOps movement is best understood through the documents that shaped it. My 2007 O'Reilly Radar post "Operations is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)" is on the list at #3.

The Agile Manifesto is the source document. Tim O'Reilly's "Operations: The New Secret Sauce" in 2006 is the piece that made me write mine the next year. John Allspaw's "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr" at Velocity 2009 pushed Patrick Debois to start DevOpsDays, which is when the term DevOps entered the working vocabulary of the field. Jay Lyman's 2010 451 report is the moment the analyst community treated the movement as a market.