In the beginning, there was the code and the coder who built it. Developers were responsible for everything. They crafted the logic and then pushed the buttons to keep it running on the server. That changed as teams expanded and labors differentiated, with some team members remaining with the code (devs) and others tending to the machines (ops).
These days, thanks to the cloud and the rise of microservices, software has become a constellation of dozens, even thousands of components running on separate machines. Each is technically independent but all of these machines must work together. Ensuring that they do is best accomplished with automated scripts. Enter DevOps.
The DevOps team’s main task is to provide all high-level orchestration of these multi-faceted apps. They may not deal with the deep corners of the software’s architecture, but they keep the parts running smoothly.
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