DevOps

DevOps is the idea that "development" (i.e. coding) and "operations" (i.e. sysadmin) should be merged together in a project team. It's a relatively new idea that has a lot of traction in the Agile/Lean Startup/etc world.

Reading

 * What is DevOps? (O'Reilly Radar)
 * Ops, DevOps, and NoOps at Netflix
 * DevOps on Wikipedia

Key technologies

 * Chef
 * Puppet
 * Continuous integration (eg. Travis)
 * PaaS (Platform as a Service, eg. cloud computing)