1. What Is DevOps?
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all.
—Stephen Hawking
1.1 Introduction
The question this book attempts to answer is “Why should I care about DevOps, and what impact does it have on me?” The long answer will be found by reading the book, but the short answer is that if you are involved in building software systems and your organization is interested in reducing the time to market for new features, then you should care. This is the motivation for DevOps, and DevOps practices will influence the way that you organize teams, build systems, and even the structure of the systems that you build. If you are a software engineering student ...
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