<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management . DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, and more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives . </P> <P> In 2009 Patrick Debois coined the term by naming a conference "devopsdays" which started in Belgium and has now spread to other countries . </P> <P> The term DevOps has been used in multiple contexts . </P>

Who started the conversation that spawned the devops movement