DevOps is the future of modern tech enterprises. Those who don’t adapt to it are bound to fail.
Okay, I’m being a bit alarmist but over time, we’ve seen this trend towards the DevOps business model is growing, and for the right reasons. Faster iterations, more stable product releases, and overall organized development operations. The word DevOps, through no fault of its own, has been pushed around a lot. Some readers are confused as to what it is.
In this post, we’ll be discussing DevOps and how monumental they can be to the processes of your business. But before we begin, let’s lay out the definition of DevOps that is correct.
DevOps Explained
DevOps is a combination of development and operations. It’s a software development methodology that mixes up its operations with development, as the name suggests, to deliver a quicker development experience.
By implementing DevOps, businesses can release seamless software updates, product releases, and overall, improve the quality of their software development processes. It’s a methodology that arose out of necessity. A decade ago, tech companies were facing significant roadblocks when it came to seamless interaction between development and operations teams.
Problems arose since the two, while being part of the same organization weren’t connected. This led to delays in product releases, among other intra-organizational debates and disputes.
DevOps arose to solve the problems associated with such a disconnected process. While it follows the same methodology as Agile development, it’s quite different because of its communicative approach.
Why Your Business Needs DevOps
The primary goal of DevOps is to improve and supercharge development workflows. With active interactions between one another, both departments are in the loop. Developers, QA, business analysts – all working in a synchronized manner to deliver the product to the audience.
But how is such an integration made possible? The DevOps engineer.
A DevOps engineer is the bridge, similar to a project manager, between development and operations – possessing the tools, processes, techniques, and methodologies from both ends of the spectrum. Equipped with the knowledge of both sides, the DevOps engineer is responsible for implementing the methodology to the best possible degree.
With this efficient approach towards development, companies can design, develop, update, and maintain their software in a quicker manner – ensuring that the iterations are delivered to the end-user as quickly as possible.
If the product is already being used, then DevOps can help in making changes and improvements to a much quicker degree – ensuring that the user experience and the features of the product are carefully calibrated.
Is Your Business Suited for DevOps?
DevOps is a methodology designed solely for Software Development Companies and companies in the IT industry. If you’re a business whose operations include application development and managing lots of servers, then DevOps would certainly benefit you. All the big tech companies from Amazon, Adobe, Walmart and Netflix are using DevOps in their software development operations.
But that doesn’t mean that if you’re a small business, you can’t start implementing DevOps to your business process as well.
Difference Between DevOps and Agile
As discussed before, DevOps works with the Agile methodology. However, it is treated differently. Now, why would that be?
Let’s take this issue into perspective and see the differences between Agile and DevOps. Also, will DevOps supersede DevOps as the default development methodology or the other way around?
What Is Agile Software Development?
Agile deals with only the former aspect of DevOps: the “dev” part. Once the development phase is finished, developers generally don’t assume any other responsibility and move onto another project or development task.
There are many different types of agile methodologies: which include Kanban, Scrum and a combo scrumban.
How Is DevOps Methodology Compared to Agile?
As it should be clear, DevOps is the same but different. Whatever form of Agile methodology you use, the end result is the developers are not coordinating with operational teams but instead are just within their own development tasks.
Similar to Agile, there are plenty of ways to implement DevOps in your organization. The only difference with Agile is that it creates a bridge of communication between the development and IT operations.
In addition to the intra organizational harmony, DevOps also ensures that the highest quality product is being distributed to the end-user.
With all that we’ve discussed here, you shouldn’t restrict yourself to a single process. In fact, many companies are combining both these methods – essentially creating a hybrid of DevOps and Agile development methodologies.
Technical Benefits of DevOps
From a purely technical perspective, what good is DevOps?
Let’s discuss.
With all of what we’ve talked about above, the benefits of DevOps makes organizational interactions better for business. By efficiently planning, coordinating, developing, and testing the product – you deploy it to the end-user. If the user requests some changes to the product, then it can be done a lot more quickly.
The end result? Effectiveness in operations. Developers are able to deploy software, QA’s are able to test and give back the developed products, and then deploy the software a lot quicker.
Software development, thus, becomes a lot more of an effective process.
Business benefits of DevOps
With the technicalities out of the way, we’ll reach towards the main goal of this article.
How can DevOps improve your bottom line?
As already hinted above, there are plenty of obvious ways in which DevOps can prove beneficial to your business processes.
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Satisfied Clients:
With quicker delivery and use of software products, DevOps provides end-users significant benefits, thus leading to an increased clientele.
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IT Business Integration:
The primary benefit of DevOps is that it enables smooth business communication. As it has already been established, this business integration is quite important for a business to grow quicker.
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Digital Transformation
As more and more companies are innovating products globally, the need for a quicker software development life cycle becomes vital. DevOps is the methodology that helps keep up with the digital transformation.
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Flexibility:
With quicker software development lifecycles, DevOps reduce the need for crunch, thus enabling developers to work efficiently.
Summary
We hope that this short article gave you a good introduction into the world of DevOps, and showed just how this methodology can be effective to your operations as well as your bottom line.
If you’re in the IT industry in one form or another, then you need to understand this concept since it’s going to be the future of software in the years to come. I would recommend that you start allocating resources towards the concept to ensure that you start benefiting from it as soon as possible.
It won’t be easy at first, but once you’re used to it, DevOps will be like clockwork.
Thanks for reading.
Source: Why DevOps Matter for Business Enterprises
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