How to explain DevOps in plain English

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Carla Rudder
Aug 29, 2019

Having trouble boiling DevOps and all it encompasses down to a sound bite? Here are a few simple definitions and analogies that will help explain DevOps, even to non-techies

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Carla Rudder

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