DevOps, as we know it, came into being in 2009.
However, the idea of the basic concept of DevOps was first thought of in 2007, after a series of issues were encountered by Patrick Debois while he worked on a large data center migration for the Belgium government, where he was responsible for testing. Patrick was extremely frustrated by the conflicts between developers and system administrators and was pondering a solution to overcome this issue.
In 2008, the concept further found momentum and first emerged out of a discussion between Andrew Shafer and Patrick Debois, who were both concerned about the drawbacks of Agile and wanted to create something better. This discussion led to the formation of the Agile Systems Administration Group, which acted as the platform for solving this division between development and operations.
This realization led to him organizing his first conference in 2009, named DevOpsDay, held in Ghent, Belgium. To promote this conference and create a memorable hashtag, Debois shortened the conference name to #DevOps. This conference initiated the spread of DevOps, which soon became a buzzword across the industry.
However, it wasn’t until Debois missed and remotely saw the O’Reilly Velocity conference in 2009, where John Allspaw and Paul Hammond gave a talk entitled “10+ Deploys a Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr,” that he finally realized his solution to bridge the gap between the two disparate fields.
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