Characteristics of DevOps:

1    Ability to write code beyond simple scripts.

2.       Focus on stability and uptime.

3.       Extra focus on moving between states :-

 In dev land, I have situations when the end result of a particular feature  was analysed on its ow merit, without taking into consideration how a system can be moved from its desired future state. DevOps pays extra attention to this problematic area.

4.       Different angle on business revenue : -

While developers usually work on things that are meant to increase or sustain business revenues, devops often work on things that are meant to prevent or reduce loss of business revenues

5.       In  devops, we are users of our own software .

6.       Architect, developers, tester, product manager, project manager – all in one.

7.       Awareness of normal accidents.

8.       Quality Assurance in production.

9.       Manual First, then Automate

10.   Almost always distributed or hyper-distributed.