DevOps

DevOps is a set of practices and cultural principles that bridge software development (Dev) and IT Operations (Ops). Its goal is to shorten the software delivery lifecycle while maintaining quality by fostering continuous collaboration between teams that have traditionally worked in silos.

DevOps relies on automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD), monitoring, and iterative feedback loops to accelerate deployment and reduce the risk of failure. Widely implemented across various industries over the past few years, it has influenced adjacent disciplines such as FinOps, which apply similar cross-functional principles to cloud cost management and machine learning operations, respectively.