DevOps means that the running and maintenance of software is considered when it’s being built—an approach that’s slowly grown in popularity due to its many advantages.
Since Salesforce became the first major company to deploy enterprise software on a web browser in 1999—using cloud computing to deliver programs on demand to anyone with an internet connection—more organizations have followed suit. But moving to the cloud shone a flashlight on a whole host of issues developers had previously never worried about.