How to automate software development. Top 5 benefits of DevOps for business

Top 5 benefits of DevOps for business

Are you wondering how you can automate application development and reduce costs while improving product quality? One of the best ways is to use DevOps allowing organizations to deliver functionality at high velocity.

Companies across different industries employ a DevOps model, for instance, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Etsy, Frontier, Biberk, Capital One, Alphapoint, and Vendasta. In this article, we will consider the main benefits of DevOps for business. Find out how you can gain a competitive advantage.

What is DevOps?

DevOps is a set of practices combining software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). These practices include continuous integration, continuous delivery, microservices architecture, infrastructure as code, monitoring and logging, communication and collaboration. Aiming to accelerate and integrate processes between software engineering and IT teams, DevOps enables organizations to build, test, and deploy apps and updates faster.

With a focus on organizational culture, DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations teams by implementing practices such as information flow, shared responsibilities, and learning.

The key benefits of DevOps for business

There are many advantages of using DevOps best practices, from simplified infrastructure maintenance and improved scalability to the enablement of high availability under heavy loads. Let’s take a closer look.

1. Software development speed

With DevOps, companies can deliver applications and features much faster than those organizations that use traditional methods of building software.

Thanks to DevOps, it is possible to reduce time-to-market by 2-3 times, which is crucial for making the necessary customizations to meet customer demand. As a result, you not only cut down expenses but outrun competitors that have not yet adopted DevOps practices.

High development speed is achieved through continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). CI enables DevOps teams to automate the process of app assembling by instantly detecting errors in the code and making rapid changes.

CD expands upon CI by moving code changes to the test and/or production environment. Due to continuous delivery, engineers always have an artifact that has already been tested and is ready for deployment.

2. Scalability

DevOps allows developers to provide scalability, the ability of a software system to efficiently handle a growing amount of work, for example, support an increasing number of users and simultaneously process numerous requests.

By implementing infrastructure automation practices such as infrastructure as code, engineers enable elastic scaling of computing resources up or down.

3. High availability

High availability is one of the key benefits of DevOps for business. By creating microservices, it is possible to ensure that the system will be stable even under heavy loads. In this type of software architecture, engineers develop an app as a set of small loosely-coupled services, each running its own process.

Since they operate independently from each other, users can interact with your product even if some service fails. With monitoring and logging, DevOps experts track software and infrastructure performance, quickly detect issues, and investigate the root causes of failures.

4. Reliability

Employing DevOps best practices, companies ensure fast and reliable feature delivery. Through the enablement of scalability and high availability, organizations provide stable operation of their services 24/7.

5. Security and compliance

In some custom software development companies—including Arateg—security and quality assurance teams are merged into a single team to collaborate throughout the project lifecycle. When all members build a digital solution or migrate to the cloud with security in mind, this is referred to as DevSecOps.

Applying policy as code, organizations can enforce compliance with security standards such as HIPAA or PCI-DSS. When the infrastructure is codified with the cloud, software development and operations teams can monitor and reconfigure it in a dynamic way. As a consequence, businesses and institutions easier manage changes over resources, for instance, automatically "fix" non-compliant resources to ensure alignment with regulations.

What results can you achieve using DevOps practices?

Experts at DORA’s (DevOps Research and Assessment) analyzed the data from over 31,000 professionals globally to create a comprehensive report on the state of DevOps in 2019.

DORA found that top DevOps performers obtain tremendous results:

  • increase the frequency of code deployments by 208 times
  • improve the lead time from the commitment to deployment by 106 times
  • reduce the incident recovery time by 2,604 times.

Experts at DORA’s (DevOps Research and Assessment) analyzed the data from over 31,000 professionals globally to create a comprehensive report on the state of DevOps in 2019.

By using AWS, we’ve cut the time needed to build new application infrastructure by more than 99%. With the virtually instantaneous infrastructure available on AWS, our DevOps tandems have the building blocks they need to start developing any new product as soon as they understand the intent behind it.

DevOps in our software development process

Our company has been providing DevOps services since the foundation in 2014. We use DevOps to ensure frequent functionality delivery and the high quality of digital solutions. By enabling continuous integration/delivery, our engineers build, test, and release faster. To leverage a CI/CD pipeline, we employ DevOps tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, and Bitbucket Pipelines.

In most cases, we recommend our customers create a microservices architecture for ensuring scalability, high availability, and ease of infrastructure maintenance. Using Kubernetes, our team automates scaling, deployment, and container management across multiple clusters.

If you want to delegate your software project to a trusted software development company, you are welcome to contact us. Our experts will get back to you within 24 hours and help address your issues. The consultation is free of charge.

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