Benefits of a DevOps-centric Approach
How DevOps helps you dominate your space
A well-designed and executed DevOps strategy can be your killer competitive advantage in the marketplace. Software companies that take the time to engaged with and implement DevOps enjoy:
Faster Time-to-Market: CI/CD and automated test-and-deploy allows companies to stay competitive and respond promptly to market changes and customer change-requests.
Improved Quality and Reliability: Automation of testing and deployment processes also increases accuracy and reduces the likelihood of errors by reducing human involvement (and eliminating human error).
Increased Efficiency: By automating routine and repetitive tasks, companies can significantly increase their operational efficiency and allow their teams to focus on more strategic, high-value tasks.
Better Collaboration: DevOps breaks down traditional silos between development and operations teams, leading to more effective problem-solving, increased innovation, and improved employee morale.
Reduced Costs and Resource Utilization: Elastic architecture via Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native applications only bill you for real-world usage, never overpaying for cloud resources.
Flexible Scalability: Infrastructure-as-Code and config-managed environments also provide unlimited horizontal and vertical scalability automatically, scaling up and down as needed.
Enhanced Security: Incorporating security practices into the DevOps pipeline (Security-by-Design), ensures security measures are baked-in from the earliest stages of development, rather than as a seperate stage later on.
The Grim Alternate Reality…
In a fast-paced, dynamic digital market, companies that ignore DevOps in favour of a traditional siloed, waterfall-release approach may experience the following well-known pain-points:
Slower Time to Market: Without the streamlined operations provided by DevOps, development is limited in its ability to respond to customer demands or competitive pressures.
Reduced Software Quality: The absence of integrated operations can lead to siloed working, where issues are not caught early in the development cycle, resulting in bugs during test.
Lower Operational Efficiency: Without automation, companies waste valuable resources on manual and repetitive tasks, reducing overall operational efficiency and increasing the chances of human error.
Poor Collaboration: DevOps encourages a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility. Without this, teams may work in silos, leading to communication gaps, misunderstanding and slower problem-solving.
Higher Running Costs: Ignoring DevOps could result in higher costs associated with inefficient resource utilization, frequent downtime, and the need for large-scale fixes due to undetected errors or issues.
Rigid Scalability: Using fixed-sized servers and throwing more servers at a problem to increase capacity is a costly and slow-moving approach with no pathway to scaling down during quiet periods.
Security Risks: By not integrating security into the development pipeline, platforms can form vulnerabilities which, if exploited, could expose it to security risks, severely harming the company's reputation and customer trust.
Releaseworks® keeps you at the top of your sector
We have years of experience in identifying current-approach pitfalls and building DevOps strategic recovery roadmaps to help turn the ship around.
We go beyond operating as a reactive outsourced arm - instead integrating our engineers with your existing teams to provide a proactive and seamless internal resource.
Our mission is to find the approach that works best for you, conceptualise it, bring it to life, measure it’s outcome and support it after-the-fact, freeing you up to do your best work and focus on what matters most.
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Releaseworks® is the trusted partner for Cloud and DevOps.
Our service offering includes DevOps and Cloud strategy, Cloud Engineering, and 24/7 Global DevOps support.
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At Releaseworks®, we specialise in Cloud and DevOps only.
We work with start-ups and enterprise organisations, and are well-versed in the unique challenges of both environments.
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Our team consists of permanent full-time employees based in the United Kingdom.
All Releaseworks® engineers hold one or more industry certifications, and are background checked according to the UK Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).