Long story, slightly shortened… It is widely agreed that Patrick Debois from Belgium and Andrew “Clay” Shafer from the US met in 2009, and coined the term ‘DevOps’, This then led to the first ‘DevOpsDays’ event in Ghent.From there is all history…fairly recent history… It’s stated that Debois’ inspiration came from watching an online webinar by two Flickr engineers John Allspaw and Paul Hammond who at the 2009 O’Reilly Velocity Conference proposed integrating development and operations into an automated infrastructure with shared version control and one-step build and deployment.