meandor

No. Originally it was about operations and developers collaborating more closely, including cultural change (devs don't throw things over the wall to ops, ops doesn't hide prod from devs), increasing automation (applying development methodologies to operations), improving learning between the ops and dev teams, and such.

These days it's sometimes used:

- to mean traditional ops

- to mean that devs do all of their own ops

- to mean that there's a separate silo between the dev and ops silos that make tools

- to mean the original thing about collaboration and a shift on the ops side to be more programmatic.

Your explanation is a complete and total myth, though. It's just some garbage from a programmer who didn't know what it meant and decided to be a huge jerk about it.