[Infographic] The History & State of DevOps

DevOps, a portmanteau of "development" and "operations" is a method, culture or practice, that emphasizes collaboration and communication of both software developers and other IT professionals while automating software delivery.

With the shift towards an increasingly "digital-ized" world, powered by cloud computing and any/mobile devices, industries are faced with challenges to meet the ever growing expectations of an always-on, creative and choice-enabled customers. All this calls for new ways of realizing business agility, enabled by digital technologies. Traditional approaches to delivery and maintenance are no longer able to serve the rapid pace of business today, and that's where DevOps is seeing an emergence.

Before knowing what the state of DevOps is, it also is good to delve a bit into the History of DevOps.

History of DevOps, via pinterest.com