[mlieberman85]

For too long Operations and Development have had an adversarial relationship that bordered on belligerent. At a lot of large organizations I've had a working relationship with development didn't really care how efficient their app worked or whether it crashed every half hour, just that it provided the functionality that it was supposed to. This became a nightmare for operations. The same goes the other way around. Operations didn't really care much about how the development environment is setup and don't care how difficult it is for developers to deploy and test their code.

DevOps, as widely debated what the actual meaning is, brings development and operations into a more symbiotic relationship. Whether that means that devs have a more operations minded outlook, or operations looks into how to make development more efficient, or automating operations or any of the other various definitions in the end it's about making sure the entire life cycle of an app is run more efficiently. From initial development and testing through scaling.