Over at the “The abyss between dev and ops” blog, Christian has a nice post describing some scenarios that essentially creates the infamous gap between Dev and Ops (check out this hilarious Monty Python take on DevOps) . In Christian’s opinion, lack of communication is a major cause. I would also expand this to the lack of communication tools, or as we like to call it at Nolio, the lack of a common interface for development, QA, and operations.

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