SOLUTIONS
DEVOPS
Bridging the gap between developers and operations teams
Making Stuff Work. Better.
DevOps is a transformational movement in the world of software development and IT operations that aims to bridge the gap between developers and operations teams. It brings together development and operations professionals under a shared goal of delivering better products and services faster through enhanced collaboration and communication. At its core, DevOps is about aligning the objectives of these two historically siloed groups to improve the speed and quality of software releases.
To accomplish this, we rely on key cultural philosophies like collaboration, automation, and monitoring across the entire delivery pipeline. On the cultural side, we break down barriers between dev and ops by promoting shared ownership of code and infrastructure, emphasizing practices like continuous integration and delivery to automate building, testing, and deployment of code changes. We also leverages tools for monitoring and logging to provide visibility into systems and rapidly detect issues. With these capabilities, you can ship updates frequently and reliably while getting faster feedback on product quality and user needs.
Overall, we help companies to seize market opportunities and innovate more quickly by replacing rigid, sequential development with flexible, iterative approaches. The increased speed, stability, and agility translates directly into improved customer experiences, more efficient operations, and competitive advantages for organizations that embrace these modern principles and practices.
DevOps Tools
Our tools are essential in the modern landscape. They help us emphasize building a culture of shared ownership and reducing silos between teams. Developers have more operational responsibilities and insight into how their code behaves in production. Operations staff engage more deeply with the development process.
Tools We Use
Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, BitBucket, Jira, Github
Ways We Help
Our DevOps teams promote collaboration across all phases of the application lifecycle – planning, development, delivery, and operations. Rather than siloed roles, we advocate for cross-functional involvement, with each team member contributing their expertise to each phase. This culture of shared ownership and integrated workflows leads to improved communication, faster release cycles, and higher quality.
Plan
In the planning stage, we brainstorm, outline, and detail the features and capabilities of applications and systems under development. To monitor progress, we track tasks at both granular and broad levels—from individual product tasks to portfolio-wide initiatives. Planning methods include creating backlogs, tracking bugs, managing agile software development, and visualizing advancement through dashboards.
Develop
The development phase includes all coding activities – writing, testing, reviewing, and integrating code by team members – as well as compiling the code into deployable build artifacts. To innovate rapidly without sacrificing quality, stability, or productivity, we utilize highly efficient tools, automate tedious manual processes, and iterate through small increments using automated testing and continuous integration.
Deliver
The delivery phase involves reliably and consistently deploying applications into production environments. It also involves deploying and configuring the fully governed infrastructure underlying those environments. In this phase, we establish a release process with clear manual approval stages and automated gates that advance applications through stages until available to customers. Automating these processes makes them scalable, repeatable, and controlled. Thus, we can frequently deliver applications with ease, confidence, and peace of mind.
Operate
The operation phase involves maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting applications in production environments to ensure system reliability, high availability, and zero downtime. By adopting best practices, we reinforce security and governance while identifying issues before they affect customer experience. We also mitigate issues quickly as they occur. Maintaining this level of vigilance requires rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and underlying systems.