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   DevOps started out as "[Agile Systems Administration](https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/16/devops-name/)". In 2008, [Andrew Shafer](https://twitter.com/littleidea) did a talk called ["Agile Infrastucture"](http://www.jedi.be/blog/2008/10/09/agile-2008-toronto-agile-infrastructure-and-operations-presentation/) addressing issues around involving more of the company in the same disciplines as programmers.

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   In 2009, [Patrick Debois](https://twitter.com/patrickdebois) created "DevOpsDays" conference to help to bring it to light. However, it wouldn't begin to [trend until about 2010](https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=devops), when people would begin to describe it as a [standalone discipline](http://www.somic.org/2010/03/02/the-rise-of-devops/).

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   Today, DevOps goes beyond just developers, systems administration and infrastructure, its about [dev, ops, agile, cloud, open source and business](https://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/03/03/devops-mixing-dev-ops-agile-cloud-open-source-and-business/), everything.