//TODO - work in progress
A few years ago I started noticing the term "NoOps" gaining in popularity among well-respected IT folks. Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri called for NoOps in 2011, and Adrian Cockcroft, whom I know and respect from my days as a Sun sys admin, re-coined the term NoOps in 2012. Perhaps some folks are really looking to cut Ops out of the picture; but what I think most are looking for, and what would serve self-hosting cloud shops best, is to pivot the way that development and operations work together.
In 1997, it took a host of teams with serious technical chops to rack and stack, configure and maintain a data center full of switches, storage, and servers, and often the deployment of one application, let alone a tightly coupled domain of apps, bordered on wizardry. Today,