DevOps was not invented by a single person. It emerged as a movement. However, two people are most closely credited with founding and popularizing DevOps:
🔹 Patrick Debois
- Widely known as the father of DevOps
- Coined and popularized the term DevOps
- Founded the first DevOpsDays conference in 2009 in Ghent, Belgium
- Focused on breaking silos between Development and Operations
🔹 Andrew Clay Shafer
- Early thought leader in Agile Infrastructure
- Collaborated with Patrick Debois in shaping DevOps principles
- Helped bridge Agile software practices with operations workflows
Where did DevOps come from conceptually?
DevOps grew out of earlier movements:
- Agile Software Development
- Lean Manufacturing
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Lessons from large-scale outages and slow release cycles
A major catalyst was the 2009 Flickr talk:
- “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr”
TL;DR
DevOps was born in 2009 as a collaborative movement, championed by Patrick Debois and Andrew Clay Shafer, to unify development and operations for faster and more reliable software delivery.
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