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HugOps

HugOps noun: a practice or ethos of showing empathy, support, and appreciation for people who operate or restore technical services, especially during an outage.

Noun

HugOps (uncountable)

  1. (social media) A practice or ethos of showing empathy, support, and appreciation for people who operate or restore technical services, especially during an outage.
    • For instance, the DevOps community is known for #HugOps—empathy sent via virtual hugs on Twitter when a particular service goes down and the community knows that the Ops team is having a rough day as a result.2018, Mary Thengvall, “Finding Your Community”, in The Business Value of Developer Relations, Berkeley, CA: Apress, →ISBN, page 114

Origin of HugOps

From hug + ops, modelled on DevOps.

Questions about HugOps

What does HugOps mean?
HugOps means a practice or ethos of showing empathy, support, and appreciation for people who operate or restore technical services, especially during an outage.
What part of speech is HugOps?
HugOps is a noun.

Words near HugOps in the dictionary

  1. Hugonians
  2. Hugoniot
  3. Hugoniots
  4. Hugophile
  5. Hugophiles
  6. HugOps
  7. Hugos
  8. Hugoton
  9. Hugpa
  10. Hugpa East
  11. Hugpa West

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