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Why are so many Ops acronyms?

Venkatesh Subramanian
4 min readApr 18, 2024

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There has been a significant increase in the number of acronyms ending with the “Ops” suffix.

DevOps, DevSecOps, GitOps, CloudOps, AppOps, DataOps, MLOps, DataSecOps, ModelOps…

Common Challenges Addressed by Ops Culture

Collaboration

Any XOps tackles the fundamental issues of coordination and collaboration among teams responsible for building and maintaining the software.

Initially, it was the merger of the dev team and the ops team (DevOps) that manages the software; later, new ops terms were created rapidly

DevOps (source — https://shalb.com/blog/what-is-devops-and-where-is-it-applied/)

With data and ML, collaboration between the teams has increased manifold.

Cycle time

The Lead Time measures “when the customer requests” to “when they receive something”. The Cycle Time measures the time the development team takes to work on and deliver the request.

Incorporating DevOps, DataOps, and MLOps methodologies and practices can significantly enhance the efficiency, speed, and quality of software development, machine learning, and data operations.

Technical Environment

Given the abundant availability of data and technologies and the growing complexity of the product, it…

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Venkatesh Subramanian
Venkatesh Subramanian

Written by Venkatesh Subramanian

Product development & Engineering Leader| Software Architect | AI/ML | Cloud computing|https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkatesh-subramanian-377451b4/

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