Adding DevOps to your team or as an extension to your team is a key factor in the growth phase of a company. In order for start-ups with an application to enter their growth period, they must have a way of scaling their infrastructure with their business.
In a blog post on JAXenter, Alex Sokolov discusses how DevOps can help start-ups scale. Sokolov explains why DevOps best practices are important, highlighting faster, more frequent deployments, fewer failures with better recovery, and more time spent on new work. The author goes on to talk about four key ways that DevOps help start-ups scale:
Continuous Monitoring. The practice of proactively keeping track of your production environment, so you can catch errors as soon as they occur.
Continuous Integration. The practice of merging changes into a central repository in small increments, so that unit tests can catch bugs earlier.
Continuous Deployment. The practice of automatically building, testing, and deploying all code into a test environment before going live.
Automatic Data Backup. The practice of ensuring there is always redundancy in your infrastructure, code, and data.
Today, we’re going to talk about two additional ways that DevOps help start-ups scale.
Continuous Security
The plight for continuous security is not to contend the idea of DevSecOps—security is a necessity across your entire organization. Every component of your infrastructure can benefit from ongoing implementation and maintenance of security tools and best practices.
As your company grows, the number of vulnerabilities also grows, and the need for faster iterations and fewer incidents grows with it. Continuous security ensures that the growth of your organization is not delayed, or worse, sabotaged, by security breaches.
As a more preventative measure, continuous security ensures that you adopt automation while reducing deployment risks.
Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement goes hand-in-hand with many of the other key ways that DevOps help start-ups scale. In a way, this process ensures that all of the other components are working as intended.
Instead of focusing on the code base, continuous improvement instead drives the progress of the processes themselves. Processes, just like the code base, needs to be updated throughout time.
The LeanKit Continuous Improvement cycle contains the following four steps:
Identify. Identify a process that needs improvement.
Plan. Determine how the process can be improved.
Execute. Implement the improvements.
Review. Assess how the improvements are affecting the team.
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