For an organization of its size, Netflix is very advanced, Perry said. "For an operation of that size to be running the way they're running, it is very, very cutting edge," he said.

Perry said that Google may have a similarly streamlined and automated process but he would be hard-pressed to name another company that would.

A big reason for the uproar around the NoOps concept is simply its name. "The language has such unfortunate connotations," said Gene Kim, former CTO and founder of Tripwire, and author of an upcoming book called "The DevOps Cookbook."

"I don't know why they choose NoOps. It's so inflammatory." There has already been a "decades long" war between developers and operations people and the term only exacerbates that, he said.

In addition, the concept of NoOps clearly means that fewer operations people are needed. Cockcroft said most of Netflix's original IT operations team left and were replaced by a smaller team.