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DevOps

DevOps, short for development operations, is a set of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools for delivering applications at high velocity, first named at the 2009 devopsdays conference in Ghent, Belgium.

DevOps Research and Assessment

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is a research program, acquired by Google in 2018, known for the DORA software delivery metrics and the annual Accelerate State of DevOps Report.

DEVOTE trial

DEVOTE (NCT01959529) was a 2017 Novo Nordisk-funded cardiovascular outcomes trial in 7637 type 2 diabetes patients showing insulin degludec noninferior to glargine U100 for MACE (HR 0.91) with less severe hypoglycemia.

Devoted Health

Devoted Health is an American Medicare Advantage health insurance company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by brothers Ed and Todd Park, with its own care arm, Devoted Medical.

Devotion (2022 film)

Devotion is a 2022 American biographical war drama directed by JD Dillard, starring Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell as Navy pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner during the Korean War.

Devotion (video game)

Devotion (還願) is a 2019 first-person psychological horror game by Taiwan's Red Candle Games, set in a 1980s apartment; delisted from Steam days after launch over a Xi Jinping meme talisman, now sold only via the studio's own store.

Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire

Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire (Fedeltà) is a 2022 Italian Netflix miniseries, six episodes adapted from Marco Missiroli's Strega Giovani-winning novel, directed by Andrea Molaioli and Stefano Cipani, starring Michele Riondino and Lucrezia Guidone as a Milan couple facing suspected infidelity.

Devprayag (देवप्रयाग)

Devprayag (देवप्रयाग), also Deoprayag, is a pilgrimage town in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers meet to form the Ganga; last of the five Panch Prayag, home to Raghunathji Temple.

Devraha Baba (देवरहा बाबा)

Devraha Baba (देवरहा बाबा), also called Maharshi Devraha Baba, was a reclusive Hindu sant and yogi of northern India who lived on wooden platforms beside rivers and died in 1990.

DevRev

DevRev is a Palo Alto, California enterprise software startup founded in October 2020 by Dheeraj Pandey and Manoj Agarwal, whose AgentOS platform unifies customer support and product development.

Devrim Özkan

Devrim Özkan (born 1998, Muğla) is a Turkish actress known for Vuslat, Gelsin Hayat Bildiği Gibi (Songül), Çift Kişilik Oda, and Yeraltı (Halide Ceylan), plus films Mavi Mağara and Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever 3; distinct from academic Devrim Özkan.

DeVry University

DeVry University, a private for-profit U.S. university founded in 1931 as DeForest Training School, offers business, technology, and healthcare degrees online and on campus; HLC-accredited, sold by Adtalem to Cogswell Education in 2018, and subject of a $100 million FTC settlement.

Devs (TV series)

Devs is Alex Garland's 2020 FX on Hulu eight-episode limited series in which engineer Lily Chan investigates Amaya's secret division and its quantum computer that retrodicts the past and predicts the future under hard determinism.

DevSecOps

DevSecOps, short for Development, Security, and Operations, is a software development paradigm that embeds security into every phase of the DevOps lifecycle via CI/CD pipelines.

Devshirme (دوشیرمه)

Devshirme (Ottoman Turkish دوشیرمه, devşirme, "collecting"), the Ottoman blood tax: levying Christian Balkan boys, converting and training them for the Janissaries, palace school, and administration, from the 15th century to the last levy of 1751.

Devshirme system

The devshirme system was the Ottoman practice of levying boys from Christian families in the Balkans, converting them to Islam, and training them for the Janissary corps and state service.

Devstral

Devstral is a family of open-weight agentic language models for software engineering from Mistral AI and All Hands AI, first released in May 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license.

Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan

Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan, born in 1964 in Gujarat, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Kheda in the Lok Sabha since 2014 and earlier served as Union Minister of State for Communications.

Devyani Khobragade incident

Devyani Khobragade incident: December 2013 arrest of India's deputy consul general in New York on visa fraud charges over her domestic worker's wages, triggering India-US retaliation, immunity disputes, and her January 2014 return to India.

Devyani Rana

Devyani Rana (देवयानी राणा), Nepali-Indian socialite of the Rana-Scindia families, linked in 2001 to Nepal's Crown Prince Dipendra and the palace massacre; married Kunwar Aishwarya Singh in 2007. Same name as the BJP MLA from Nagrota, Jammu.

Devyn Simone Lock

Devyn Simone Lock (née Sims, born 1988), known professionally as Devyn Simone, is an American TV host, matchmaker, and reality personality from Kansas City; Real World: Brooklyn, The Challenge, Love at First Swipe, Tinder relationship expert.

Dew

Dew is water in the form of droplets that condenses from atmospheric water vapor onto surfaces cooled overnight below the air's dew point, most often on vegetation and soil.

Dew on the Shallot

Dew on the Shallot (薤露, Xielu) is one of the two earliest surviving Han dynasty yuefu elegies, a funeral song likening human life to quickly dried dew.

Dew point

The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure for water vapor to condense, and a direct measure of humidity.

Dewa

Dewa (出羽), also known as Ideha, was a Japanese province on the Japan Sea side of Honshu. Classified as an "upper province," it was split into Uzen and Ugo in 1868.

Dewa 19

Dewa 19, also known as Dewa, is an Indonesian rock band from Surabaya formed in 1986 around founder Ahmad Dhani, regarded as one of Indonesia's most influential bands.

Dewald Brevis

Dewald Brevis, "Baby AB", South African right-handed T20 batter from Johannesburg; record 506 runs at 2022 U19 World Cup, Mumbai Indians 2022–2024, Chennai Super Kings from 2025, highest South African T20I score 125.

DeWalt

DeWalt is an American power tool brand owned by Stanley Black & Decker, known for cordless power tools, hand tools, and outdoor equipment under the slogan "Guaranteed Tough".

Dewan Bahasa

Dewan Bahasa is a Malay-language monthly magazine published by Malaysia's national language institute, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, covering language issues and Malay's role in thought, society, and education.

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) is Malaysia's statutory body for developing the Malay language, literature, and publishing, established in 1956 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur.