Breaking Down the Benefits of DevOps for Businesses

“Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.” 

– Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft)

An online website is like the lifeblood of an ecommerce business, so to ensure the stability and high quality of this essential element of my business, I decided to implement DevOps.  

For those of you who have never heard of DevOps, you can think of it as some unsaid set of rules that facilitate the way development (Dev) and operation (Ops) teams collaborate. You will be shocked to know that 99% of organizations that have implemented DevOps reported positive effects from it. (Space Lift: DevOps statistics) 

I don’t know about those 99%companies, but from my experience, I can tell you that this new approach proved to be groundbreaking for us. In this article, I’ll share some of the benefits I observed after implementing this strategy.   

Let’s Begin With Process Automation

A significant function DevOps performs is the automation of manual workflows and processes that could potentially hinder your company from boosting the quality and speed of your software. Unfortunately, the risk of human errors is pretty high, and it is also a major challenge for any business.

But that’s precisely why DevOps is here. With these DevOps services, such obstacles can easily be overcome. How come? Well, that’s because DevOps will merge numerous technologies and solutions designed to automate various phases of the software delivery pipeline, like constant integration, consistent supervising and feedback, and continuous delivery.

Moreover, process automation allows team members to concentrate and develop first-class software by freeing time for a lot more efficient tasks. It’s safe to say that without DevOps, owners, and managers of IT companies wouldn’t be so confident about their software products.

DO YOU KNOW? 
Companies that adopt DevOps can release software up to 30 times faster than those using traditional methods. This allows businesses to stay competitive and respond to market changes more quickly.

Everyone Becomes A Lot More Productive And Effective

If you ask companies, a major percentage of them would tell you that they resorted to DevOps because it simplifies workflow, drastically decreases manual effort, and automates a variety of different tasks. 

For instance, a bug-tracking tool intended to reduce manual effort can enable you to focus on other equally important tasks and activities.

DevOps provides teams with a chance to resolve various problems much quicker, even the most complex ones, resulting in fewer mistakes and bugs, making every single employee in your business a lot more efficient and productive.

Constant Integration And Deployment 

You can safely say that constant integration is one of the central practices of DevOps, which usually encompasses merging and testing various alterations that were made to an application’s source code.

All the developers put their code commit to the development branch on the version control system, and then that code is immediately arranged together, tested, and deployed in a certain environment.

A code can be integrated into the main application only when it passes all the tests.  These methods allow both code conflicts and errors to easily be detected and modified, if necessary, before it becomes too late.

Furthermore, consistent delivery also includes automating the process of putting applications into production. It presents an automated deployment environment and infrastructure for code in production. 

The major purpose of all of this is to eliminate the bottlenecks and, simultaneously, to decrease any risks linked with placing a brand-new version of the app into production, by virtue of the testing tools.

DO YOU KNOW? 
83% of IT decision-makers report their organization is implementing DevOps practices. However, only 21% of respondents identify their team as “a DevOps team”, down from a peak of 29% in 2018.

It Helps With Collaboration And Trust

Every DevOps team that aspires to be successful, would want to create and work in an environment that’s professional, reliable, responsible, and transparent. These qualities ensure the proper functioning of a team.

When a lot of DevOps experts were asked about this, a vast majority of them agreed on a certain thing, and that is that it’s paramount to work in a team that promotes collaboration and problem-solving if they want to be and stay successful.

The team that works in silos frequently does not comply with the systems thinking DevOps normally supports. Systems thinking is completely conscious of how your behavior doesn’t only impact the team you work in, but every other team that’s involved in this release process.

When there are no shared aims, then there’s no dependency planning, which can lead to some serious collaboration issues, such as finger-pointing, misunderstandings, no accountability, and many other problems that inevitably result in poor quality.

But that’s precisely why DevOps is here. Unlike many others, it perceives the entire development process holistically, and, simultaneously, helps in breaking down any barrier that exists between operations and development.

Any business that wants to gain a competitive edge and remain successful must be very swift and efficient when it comes to software development. It’s more than obvious that with DevOps, that (and many other things) can easily be accomplished.

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