Software companies, vendors, and conferences

Viktor Farcic: You've mentioned companies. I know that you go to conferences every once in a while, so I'm wondering what do you think about software vendors nowadays? Whenever I go to a conference, I always see every product being labeled as DevOps, and I'm getting a bit confused by that because it's got me thinking, what do they actually mean?

Damien Duportal: It's just a way for those vendors to find a business model in a fast-changing sector. There are the debates about the open source or closed source business models. As you said, everyone at conferences today is selling DevOps because everyone understands that selling just a single piece of software is not sustainable. It might have been in the 1980s or 1990s, but not today. As a developer, you need to grow the value of what you are providing, or someone else will build the same software and will just totally roast you in their wake. When I grew up as an...