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9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.”

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be?

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Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps?

Smashing Magazine

And the reason I think it’s important is that one, I think we’re always more efficient, again, when we understand what our counterparts are doing. Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. Jeff: And then from there, diving into any of the DevOps handbook. No, that’s not it. Jeff: Absolutely.

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