Why are we racing to DevOps?

Over the past three years, DevOps has gone from a little-known term to a buzzword on lips of everyone in the industry. Pioneered by so-called “webscale” companies like Etsy and Amazon, DevOps is now something that is widespread across the enterprise market – it seems to be something everyone wants to do. There’s just one question: Just what is DevOps? Some people characterize it as refashioned agile development practices; others describe it as new supporting tooling