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#FailOps

Many years ago, Oleg Vishnepolsky and I worked together at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center on the OS/2 1.1 port of the TCP/IP protocol stack.  Recently, I had a conversation with Oleg, who is currently the CTO at The Daily Mail Online, about DevOps and how it seems companies miss the whole point of what DevOps promotes.  During our conversation (via email), it came out that he was of the opinion that DevOps is not a successful paradigm to follow and asked me for my thoughts on the matter.  I decided (with his permission) to publish the conversation because it seems that a lot of people are of a similar mind when it comes to DevOps (just as there were similar attitudes when the OGC released ITIL in the late 1980's), and while I do agree that many companies are not seeing the benefits of DevOps that it is supposed to bring to an organization, I don't believe that the problem is with the paradigm.  Hopefully, my answers to Oleg will not only clarify why DevOps is import