DevGovOps, A New Play on DevOps, Or Is It
DevOps.com, Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
I've been around this space long enough to remember when any attempt to wedge something between 'Dev' and 'Ops' would set my teeth on edge. There was only DevOps - pure and simple. The term represented a cultural and technical shift in how we build and run software. Adding extra syllables in the middle felt like watering it down.
But at JFrog's swampUp conference this week, I was reminded that sometimes the middle matters. The new variant I heard about - DevGovOps - isn't just another buzzword grafted onto the DevOps family tree. It struck me as something worth paying attention to, especially given where we are in this age of AI.
The Long Line of 'XXOps'
Let's be honest: The 'Ops suffix' has been abused. Over the years, we've seen attempts to coin DevBizOps, DevSalesOps, and more. Most of them never got past the press-release stage.