To application modernization.

Just commit to resilient agility.

The quintessential challenge of the pre-DevOps world is that development teams are incentivized to increase innovation velocity while operations teams are incentivized for stability, uptime, and error reduction. The two goals are seemingly at odds with each other.

The reality is, the business needs both agility and resilience. Increasing the pace of innovation while staying up and available is critical to customer delight. Either stale features or outagges can be hugely damaging to customer retention.

Adopting modern best practices such as cloud native architecture leveraging containers, microservices, and CI/CD can put both development and operations teams at ease. Where previously speed and uptime were at odds with each other, modern architectures increase the speed with which new functionality can be delivered while also increasing software stability so you can go fast without breaking things.

Just commit to developer productivity, happiness, and retention.

In a legacy enterprise, developers have to spend a significant amount of time worrying about the environment their code is deployed to. From targeting specific operation systems and dependencies to determining resource needs by sizing virtual machines or physical hardware, a lot of developer effort is spent not doing development. In this scenario, developers are being asked to work outside of their core competency and essentially do both dev and ops.

Modern organizations leverage cloud native tools and processes. In this environment, operations teams focus on building platforms that automate deployment pipelines and infrastructure configuration. This frees developers to write code focused on delivering business value without worrying about where that code will be deployed. Developers’ output increases as they spend more time working within their core competencies. This not only has a positive impact on developer productivity but also gives you the ability to attract and retain top talent. Devs know they get to focus on what matters to them: innovation.

Just commit to efficient IT spend.

In most engineering organizations, a large portion of resources and budget goes to undifferentiated integration and maintenance. Teams are siloed by their tools, each working with their unique specialized set, making collaboration difficult, and troubleshooting across the stack nearly impossible. The rapid growth in the sheer number of tools used for software development delivery is becoming a toolchain crisis.

By simplifying the toolchain, you reduce DevOps costs and maintenance. Instead of tying up engineering resources dedicated to maintenance, you can focus your budget and headcount on driving business outcomes.