DevOps – Emerging solution to the modern business disruptions & digital upset in cloud

Created On : Mar-21-2016 Author : Arunabh Amit
DevOps – Emerging solution to the modern business disruptions & digital upset in cloud

DevOps is trending and came as a by-product of the intent and need to integrate software development with that of various operations involved, and to serve the purpose of creating a communicative and creative collaboration between various stakeholders in a software flux environment where delivery is fast & continuous.

Since its inception, DevOps has moved away from being just a culture and set of practices, confined within few premises to that of a formalized software development approach which has many significant technical and business perk associated.

  1. Increased deployment frequency.
  2. Shorter development cycles.
  3. Faster time to market.
  4. End to end software delivery life-cycle where business owners, end users, design thinking processes & user analytics are all seamlessly integrated.
  5. Accelerated error removal from the delivery through automation and provision of feedback loop for continuous learning and improvement.
  6. Bolster collaborative development and testing across the value chain, with focus on continuous delivery and innovation.
Top 7 companies of the world that are leading the charge of using and redefining DevOps in a more revolutionized way.

  1. Netflix :- This entertainment giant created hundreds of volunteer developers in order to stress test its massive open source cloud infrastructure via suite of automated tools which helped it proactively pick and resolve vulnerabilities before they impact the operations. They smartly adopt new technologies and implement them into DevOps approach.
  2. Amazon :- The top online retailer moved to Amazon web service (AWS) cloud which helped its engineers to accommodate unforeseen spike and still avoid wastage of server capacity. It also helped their developers to deploy their code to whichever servers they want anytime. This Ultra-agile approach reduced the total outages volume and significantly increased the revenue.
  3. Walmart :- Walmart created WalmartLabs its technological innovation arm with the purpose of capturing more market share and taking on its biggest competitor Amazon. However, they surprisingly but decidedly chose DevOps approach to accomplish its mission. They created several open source tools that helped its developers to write reusable codes rather than spending time in building infrastructure.
  4. Facebook :- It adopted DevOps in name quiet early in its existence like including code ownership, automation, incremental changes and continuous improvement however this approach has evolved into full-fledged method of flexible movement in cloud infrastructure helping accelerated development lifecycle more innovative and agile.
  5. Adobe :- Adobe managed to move away from being a packaged software provider to that of cloud service model where small software updates are offered instead of periodical big like annual or semi-annual releases. It uses CloudMunch’s end to end DevOps platform to automate and fully manage its deployment operations.
  6. Sony Pictures Entertainment :- Digital media group owned Sony pictures, implemented an automated cloud delivery system, consisting of both open source tools and SaaS solutions as a part of choosing a continuous delivery model which helped cut down its month long delivery time to just few minutes. This also helped their developers to look for adding more feature instead of sitting idle and increase cost.
  7. Fidelity Worldwide Investments :- Acknowledging its error prone manual process of deploying applications across hundreds of servers with each app requiring customization to fit into local infrastructure, they squeezed the opportunity to go DevOps way and implemented an automated software release framework that helped it meet the roll out deadline. Massive cost avoidance to that of estimated $2.3 million were achieved on a yearly basis and also helped the process of predictable release schedules easier.

Conclusively DevOps is hot precisely from the fact that it provides scalability, without compromising on robustness and making the whole process to the hilt interactive with fast delivery orientation, however before jumping on the gun companies need to carefully observe few misconception about the popular believe and the understanding that it's not a quick win formula for everyone.

DevOps is Automation

It's a general misunderstanding that "DevOps" signifies merely the use of one or more standard automation framework although rather than just automation, it's a much evolved ultra agile style to the product development. Appropriately DevOps integrates automation with mindful approach to constantly improving the actual software.

A Separate DevOps team

Another detrimental DevOps delusion is that there is a need to create an independent DevOps team without learning the fact that it's an end to end approach to constantly improving and developing an entities software starting from, product management to development, to QA, to deployment, and all the related operations.

DevOps will save big bucks

It has always been imperative for the IT management to primarily think in terms of cost savings, and to demonstrate the same when there is a need to implement new technologies, cost saving figures puts up as the fundamental motivating factor to show return on investment and hence the decision on its adoption. However being a smart approach, DevOps does not necessarily bring the head count down and may result in cost savings in a more mature DevOps aligned organizations but not in short term for sure.




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