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DevOps but in a free-spirited, loosy-goosey sort of way.

The art of pushing untested tooling changes to main and breaking the entire pipeline, of adding increasingly brittle script hacks to "save time", of moving fast and breaking all the things...constantly.
"Hey guys be sure to pull main when you get a chance. We've done a bunch security and performance upgrades! ✨✨"

15 minutes later

"So we did a devoops. We are aware that CI builds are failing. Rollback patch will be up shortly. Please do not pull main."
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When developers and operations get together to drink beer and color on whiteboards to avoid drama in the War Room.

Also a buzzword for recruiters to use to promote overpaid dev or ops jobs.
A: "Where are Steve and Greg?"

B: "Their team is 'DevOps' so they went to the pub to talk about the latest outage."
DevOps by ITbuzzwords February 20, 2013
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> Call DevOps. Our princess is down.
> Passed out from the maintenance.
DevOps by abitrolly October 15, 2021

DevOps Bae 

When you are doing your AWS thing with a bit of sprinkle.
EMJ is a total DevOps Bae and everyone on Zoom knows it.
DevOps Bae by #e91e63 March 12, 2021
Second rate developers who deploy software and look in log files.
I can't program so I joined devops
Devops by Johnson38392 August 20, 2018

Devopsless 

Legacy application that don't fit i a DevOps environment or a CI CD workflow
Devopsless apps: Application that doesn't have any kind of api it's only clickable
Devopsless by DevOpsLess May 28, 2016

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026