The emergence of microservices, cloud computing, DevOps, and other cloud-based technologies has helped several organizations to respond and adapt to market changes to stay in the competition. Just look at the success of the first unicorn of the web, Spotify, Netflix, and Google. Obviously, not all companies can be a unicorn, but there is a lot you can learn from those who use the cloud-first.
Benefits of Cloud-Native Technology
The now popular Spotify organization model chapters, and groups have finally led to the development of their applications as independent microservices, which also support the rapid rate of change they want. With the combination of a compelling vision and full acceptance of cloud services, Netflix was able to revitalize the new marketers in the video streaming space. And Google’s approach to collaborating, using automation, and troubleshooting ops using techniques inspired from software development has given them the power to measure a global object two decades ago.
Strong strong leadership and a willingness to constantly change and change the internal culture of the organization have had a profound impact on the outcomes. One of the most important things has been done continuously to reduce lead time to bring value. That can be seen in the drive to reduce conflict by having ideas, coding, outsourcing, and getting feedback.
Organizations that have successfully embraced what we now call the “traditional cloud” have invested heavily in two key areas: creating a platform for self-sufficiency, and adopting new tools and workflow for developers.
In the organization’s view, these investments have broken the barriers between working and development teams that have traditionally mediated through ticketing programs. That has led to the creation of two top teams working together through well-defined APIs, automation, and a focus on human interaction:
Platform teams and trusted auxiliary engineers (SRE) are the owners of the platform, continue to transform the platform’s performance, and help curb good work practices; and
The “full cycle” development teams are the owners of the organization’s products and services, and use the new platform and workflow to bring value to customers.
Although beneficial, introducing these technological and organizational changes has always been painless. For better or worse, the traditional software development cycle (SDLC) is interrupted by the arrival of the cloud.
Full Cycle Development: SDLC Disruption
According to the traditional SDLC method, engineers were specialized and often worked on silos. Operators create and manage data centers. Architects designed systems, designed boxes, and arrows, and provided architectural control. Engineers typically write codes and test a host of changes in the previous working conditions of their monolithic applications. And quality assurance engineers (QA) have validated and promoted programs using a series of platforms. Applications that refer to the QA are assigned tasks to be processed and processed. After this, any issues or misconduct were identified by the ops team and returned to the developer.
Agile enabled faster composting but did not completely eliminate the dev / ops barrier
The adoption of cloud technologies, such as Kubernetes, has allowed the project team to automate the provision of platforms and developers to create applications for applications. The use of microservices has allowed groups promoting product development to operate independently. Therefore, the SDLC cloud is very different. Engineers are designing a front-end building design that is comfortable enough. Engineers are writing small iterative changes against many services, some of which may work locally, while others are remote. Engineers now want to automate QA-style authentication as part of the coding process. And engineers want to run a quick, controlled test in production. This method is known as full-cycle development and was made known to Netflix.
Full-cycle development.
It is worth taking a break here to understand the two main structures of this initiative that go to “full cycle” development teams. This does not eliminate the need for professional, sysadmin, or platform teams. This, however, requires the transfer of skills within both development and operational teams.
Perfect cycle development teams will need to develop expanded business domain technologies and expand their understanding of the basic configuration of operating time in their applications. The working team will have to learn new cloud technologies and understand how this integrates with existing solutions on an active platform.
Summary
As mentioned here, adopting traditional cloud technology and development styles can provide significant benefits to your organization by firmly reducing the amount of conflict and lead time that is consistent between ideas and bringing value to your customers. To fully reap the benefits of indigenous cloud technology, there are important organizational, cultural, and technological shifts to be addressed.
