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by ironchef 4767 days ago
It's essentially a mindset where the developers are also the operations staff and the operations staff are also the developers. This avoids the classical "throw it over the wall" mentality by making the developers live with the pain of their system (if you write shit, you get paged, etc.).

I'd check the wikipedia for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps