Teaching DevOps in academia and industry: reflections and vision

@article{Bobrov2019TeachingDI,
  title={Teaching DevOps in academia and industry: reflections and vision},
  author={Evgeny Bobrov and Antonio Bucchiarone and Alfredo Capozucca and Nicolas Guelfi and Manuel Mazzara and Sergey Masyagin},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2019},
  volume={abs/1903.07468}
}
This paper describes our experience of delivery educational programs in academia and in industry on DevOps, compare the two approaches and sum-up the lessons learnt. We also propose a vision to implement a shift in the Software Engineering Higher Education curricula. 
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