What are known useful and misleading memes in the DevOps culture?

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After discovering the Cattle vs Pets and 12factor apps DevOps memes which now will help me a lot with communication, I ask myself what are other known memes in the DevOps culture?

Side note: best is to establish fact why a meme is a meme e.g. more than 10K Google query results?

This is an interesting question, but long lists of answers don't really work well on Stack Exchange sites. The question might be better if you narrow the criteria a little bit (see this post for the reasons behind lists being discouraged) — Aurora0001, Jun 23 '17 at 15:19

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 25 '18 at 08:34

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Useful memes:

"Wall of Confusion" from https://www.slideshare.net/littleidea/agile-infrastructure-velocity-09
C.A.M.S. from https://blog.chef.io/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/
"10+ deploys per day" from https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/ and https://youtu.be/LdOe18KhtT4
I.C.E. from http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/devops-keeps-it-cool-with-ice.html
"CI Theatre" from https://www.gocd.org/2017/05/16/its-not-CI-its-CI-theatre.html

There are some horrible memes pushed by vendors worth mentioning.

WARNING: Bad memes to use for explaining DevOps (traps for young players) -

"BI-Modal IT" by Gartner - criticised by Jez Humble here: https://continuousdelivery.com/2016/04/the-flaw-at-the-heart-of-bimodal-it/
"Multi-Speed IT" by Accenture https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-calibrating-multi-speed-it - (same as bimodal, but different name because of copyright - asked about here - What is good and/or bad about Accenture's Multi-speed IT approach to DevOps?
"The Three Ways" by Gene Kim https://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/ - the comments on the article include plenty of criticism

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answered Jun 23 '17 at 10:24

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thanks for the 'bad' memes Evgeny, would you share links to preferrably mostly objective and unbiased assessments why these are misleading? – Ta Mu Jun 23 '17 at 11:11
Since these are memes, they are hugely popular and discusses all over the place. Every Google search for these would bring out a hefty amount of both criticism and vendor pushing. It is quite easy to distinguish, anything that is not written by the vendor - for these memes would be criticism (not praise). – Evgeny Zislis Jun 23 '17 at 11:12
partly agree, but, Gartner in that particular case is not a vendor? Neither actually Accenture/Kim. "Vendor meme" sounds to me sth to promote specific offer bound to company's IP. Still, there can be misleading memes for sure which I'd rather qualify as "myths". – Ta Mu Jun 23 '17 at 11:16
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I tried my best. But Gartner IS a vendor in my book, when it tries to explain DevOps using their own made-up ideas. As the saying goes - "Everyone who is trying to define DevOps in a couple of words is trying to sell you something". – Evgeny Zislis Jun 23 '17 at 11:46
what about Blue/Green deployment? https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html – Ta Mu Sep 18 '17 at 09:24
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3114195/system-management/the-8-fallacies-of-distributed-computing-are-becoming-irrelevant.html – Ta Mu Nov 21 '17 at 07:34
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http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/ – Ta Mu Nov 27 '17 at 12:51

What are known useful and misleading memes in the DevOps culture?

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