DevOps: The Never-Ending Story | Shimmy Says Ep. 42
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22-Jan-2026
DevOps isn’t dead. It’s evolving. For more than a decade, DevOps has been declared finished, broken, or replaced by the next new thing. And yet, it continues to adapt—absorbing cloud native practices, SRE, platform engineering, and now AI. This episode of Shimmy Says explores DevOps not as a tool or a trend, but as a living system shaped by people, incentives, and real-world complexity. The tools change. The platforms evolve. The principles endure. DevOps was never meant to be done. It was meant to keep going.
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