Reading about history is usually a good way to educate. ENIAC, the world's first and fastest (at that time) electronic computer, had a full time devops staff of six. ENIAC was a beast of a machine, using a whopping 150kW of power, and broke on a daily basis. ENIAC's devops team was comprised of Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Programming
If you program or do operations for a living, know the first of your kind were hard working women who also dressed to the nines when they showed up for work.
If you program or do operations for a living, know the first of your kind were hard working women who also dressed to the nines when they showed up for work.