Verify Certificate William Boyd’s DevOps Essentials course provides an introduction to the DevOps approach to writing and deploying software. Boyd begins with the historical and conceptual background for the DevOps movement. DevOps is best understood as a cultural movement towards stronger collaboration and shared responsibilty between engineers who write code (Dev) and engineers who deploy code (Ops.) This cultural movement gave rise to a set of practices that enable the two groups of engineers to work together more effecively and an ecosystem of tools to support this goal.