Intro to DevOps

What is DevOps? Is it a culture? Is it a job title or an org structure? Or is it a common methodology and mindset? Essentially it’s a quickly evolving movement that may have morphed before you finished reading this. Come join us on June 4th to discuss some of the common themes, tools and ideas.

Rooted in the desire to foster a culture of agility and high performance in IT, the DevOps movement strives to achieve an alignment of development and operational roles and responsibilities. By breaking down silos and removing handoffs between traditionally separate operational and development teams, DevOps strives to increase developer independence and accountability by dramatically reducing the time and eliminating manual steps between a commit and an automated production deployment.

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Jade Chu is a Tech Director of Infrastructure Development at AOL. Her background includes software engineering, systems engineering and design, web application development, SaaS, technical operations infrastructure automation, advertising systems, and workflow & process systems. Jade leads the software engineering organization responsible for the company’s operations infrastructure automation including Cloud, CMDB, continuous delivery and devops services, data center automation, host and network configuration management, and metrics/alarming/paging.