DevOps
DevOps is a culture and set of practices that bring development and operations teams together, historically kept separate, to ship software faster and more reliably. It relies on automation, continuous integration and delivery, and shared monitoring of production.
For a SaaS product that needs to stay continuously available, DevOps plays out very concretely: a developer can deploy their feature to production several times a week, without waiting for a manually approved release window. Infrastructure is described as code (with Terraform, for instance), versioned alongside the rest of the project, so a team can rebuild an identical environment in minutes if something breaks. That's what separates a team that can react quickly to a production incident from one that has to wait until the next day to fix it.
The common mistake is thinking DevOps is just tooling (a CI/CD pipeline, an AWS account) without changing how teams actually work together. Without genuinely shared responsibility between developers and operations, the same friction reappears: devs ship, ops deal with the fallout. A good practice is to have developers themselves carry the production on-call rotation, which naturally pushes them to write more robust code.
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