What does devops mean to you?

1)  breaking down the silo between development and operations and merging teams so that dev and ops work together under the same manager 

2) you build it, you run it - the merging of job functions so dev and ops which used to be 2 people becomes 1

Or something entirely different :)

Cohost of /gmfarcaster, a live stream Farcaster news show.  Engineer. Mom x 3.

Unite the process and technology with people. It’s a culture. 

I went to the first DevOps days in Ghent - suggest you read all the old work from Patrick DeBois. 

So definitely not two jobs becoming one, but we are moving away from people just being a systems administrator. Infrastructure as code, too, as a bonus. Your bash scripts become ansible playbooks for example.

Applied AI, databases, data, vibe coding (sic.), open source, community/devrel, remote. 

itinerant businessperson. globalist.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We were purer earlier lol. Btw we still do cfgmgmtcamp in Ghent (right after fosdem in Brussels). If you like to get into the weeds, I recommend both

No way! Good lore. The godfather of devops! I met Patrick at the DevOps Enterprise Summit (now called the Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit) in 2023. 
I love so much of the early DevOps movement.