[wtbob]

> DevOps /is/ operations. It is just that simple. It is design and automation of support systems. Nothing more, nothing less.

I disagree; although there's a huge value to consciously automating and designing support/deployment systems, there's even more value to developing products to be deployed ab initio.

You need automated production systems, and you also need developers who understand how their code is deployed and run. Really, you need smart, productive people, not interchangeable Java monkeys.