What is DevOps?
DevOps may be defined as a cross-functional approach to the process. The DevOps model is a combination of two distinct part of the software development process – development and operations (AKA infrastructure management).
DevOps may be defined as a cross-functional approach to the process. The DevOps model is a combination of two distinct part of the software development process – development and operations (AKA infrastructure management).
In other words, DevOps is a result of streamlining the organization in order to make it more flexible, dynamic and effective. This streamlining of processes was required to put a check on the ever-growing, sprawling organizations that consume too many resources and hold down overall flexibility of the development team.
According to Aaron M. Lee, Managing Principal of DevOps at Pythian, there are two kinds of scalability that DevOps engineers tend to address: application and organization. “An app’s scalability is really a question of how long it takes and how much it costs to build and operate a system that successfully delivers a certain level of concurrency; one that matches or exceeds user demand over some time period,” said Lee. “Estimating answers to these questions is a critical success factor for many companies, and the ability to do so often goes unrecognized until it’s too late.”
Therefore, it becomes imperative that Businesses and technology must agree on the right balance of functionality, time to market, cost, and risk tolerance. Organizations should be absolutely clear about their business objectives, and also aim for a tangible target including how many users, and how many concurrent requests over those endpoints for a demand pattern.
Why Scalability
Scalability continues to be one of the top priorities for enterprises. A product can only sustain if it can withstand maximum stress. DevOps ensures better scalability through certain practices. Organizations must configure the system in such a way that it is flexible enough of increasing the resource consumption and also scaling it down when the load is lesser.
DevOps implements certain practices to secure better scalability. Therefore, organizations must configure the system in a flexible manner so it is capable of increasing the resource consumption and also scaling it down when the load is lesser.
The business challenge:
Organizations need to scale their databases or services. In high-tech business, scalability is seen as a reflection of real physical processes scaling. It is to be noted here that by scalability, we do not want to confine ourselves to the technological connotation only. It is not just a set of diagram or blocks that we draw on the whiteboard or scaling requests into multiple servers.
In a real-life scenario, scalability implies the utilization of people to create effective business architectures. The basic scalability technical issue is all about having your services serve more units of work with more resources. The best way to do this is by utilizing horizontal scaling.
How does Dev Ops ensure Scalability?
Dev Ops ensures higher scalability in more ways than one. Effective communication, one of the key features of Dev Ops is reflected through team scalability. Employees need some time to get acquainted with the project. When the DevOps approach is implemented right, it ensures a faster turnaround of resources. DevOps makes this process much more efficient and easier.
The primary motive is to develop and deploy software with 360-degree communication between teams, streamlined practices, and with minimum disruption. This translates in optimal performance at work and lesser cost of operation.
In addition to the decreased cost in software development, Dev Ops ensures faster software releases, a reduction in software development failures and, a faster recovery time (in cases of system outages). DevOps creates increased innovation opportunities and fosters a performance orientation instead of power plays between teams.
How DevOps does ensure System Uptime
The Business challenge:
According to a recent survey report published by PagerDuty about 52% of companies polled have come across system disruptions at least once a month. Of respondents, a further 45% said their teams work with six or more monitoring systems. Only 27& of the polled consolidate alerts in one place. This suggests that IT teams have issues dealing with too much noise. This often leads to missed alerts, outages and engineer burnout. Of those IT resources surveyed, 85% said they miss alerts, most likely to have a disastrous effect on their business.
DevOps is the answer:
DevOps, which focuses on collaboration and open communication, brings together developers and operations engineers for faster delivery and for minimizing the production issues introduced by those can predict better on software performance, and in their own ability to make quick changes to both the software and environment to respond to operational incidents right away.
The Dimensional Research survey found that 31% of DevOps teams are so diligent that they never miss critical alerts. It has been found that DevOps teams receive more alerts than non-DevOps teams. Despite that, they are still able to manage system alerts more efficiently. The survey shows that about 77% of DevOps companies respond within a half-hour. In addition, DevOps teams garner a higher level of incident response satisfaction from stakeholders.
DevOps teams know how to translate these incident response successes into improved customer relationships. As a result, DevOps people are 30% more likely to be transparent with customers about critical incidents because transparency is a key principle of every stage of DevOps production.
Today’s customers like to stay connected all the time. They want to be everywhere every time. No amount of waiting time or downtime is entertained. DevOps is the best decision for organizations to stay on top of incidents, cut through alert noise and resolve issues quickly. It ensures improved uptime which translates into improved customer relationships and a competitive edge in today’s marketplace.
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