DevOps! A must for modern software development, right?! You would expect most companies are already moving towards this new way of working. Why? Because software development needs to be more agile. Say you have a new customer, he wants a demo of your application but he also wants to see that one new feature. The software release that contains that feature is scheduled to be released in 2 months. Though, that specific feature is already “done and ready”. You ask the developers/administrators if they can put together a demo of that feature.. At that moment the devs and administrators are getting nervous. Everyone checks in their code to one single code branch so how are they going to demo that specific feature? Maybe on a laptop of a dev that still has a stable (*kuch* compiling) revision? This is where we have to change the way we develop software. 
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