Companies today are squeezed from both sides: deliver more, deliver faster, and do it at lower cost. At the same time, changes to products often take months to reach the customer. DevOps is what closes that gap — and that is why it matters.
DevOps is one of the most overloaded words in our industry. People use it to mean a tool, a team, a job description, even a vendor product. None of those are right. DevOps is the set of cultural and technical practices that improve the development (Dev) and operation (Ops) of software — together, across the entire life cycle.
