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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. That continued even after I started practicing Agile. Although Agile teams are meant to be cross-functional, operations were handled by other people—people I never met, and rarely even knew the names of.

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C4 PlantUML: Effortless Software Documentation

Apiumhub

An excellent way to approach it is with C4 PlantUML—a powerful tool that allows developers to generate comprehensive system architecture documentation with just a few lines of code, making the documentation process not only efficient but also an integral part of the development workflow.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner. Besides operations and software engineering, areas of experience relevant to the SRE role encompass monitoring systems, production automation, and system architecture.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

In chapter 3 (Agility and Leanness) he introduces DevOps, a set of technical practices based on cross-functional teams and heavy automation that effectively does away with the tradeoff between speed and control – you can have both. From rigid and risk-adverse to agile, experimental, and adaptable.