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Q3: What is the current state of DevOps in the software development industry?
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Steve Brodie
I really see it vary by vertical. Certainly, seems to be fairly standard practice for emerging, Silicon Valley startups
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Elisabeth Hendrickson
DevOps is where Agile was 10 years ago: real in some places, illusion in others, largely mysterious for most folks.
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Steve Brodie
But, we are much earlier in the adoption cycle for many larger traditional enterprises
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Steve Brodie
One of the big challenges is having a common definition of whatis meant by DevOps
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Jeremy Douglas
@testobsessed so true!
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Steve Brodie
I actually see DevOps being more like where Cloud was 7 years ago
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Steve Brodie
We didn't have the definitions of IaaS and PaaS in cloud world and everyone was saying they were a cloud vendor
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Jeremy Douglas
@stbrodie what is your definition of it?
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Steve Brodie
DevOps is similar in some ways. Is DevOps a methodology, cultural movement, technology
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Steve Brodie
@damonedwards I'll defer to Damon for the definition of DevOps