Use case
Accelerating Development with Isolated Environments per Developer
- Pruthviraj Rajput
About the Customer
Sociavia is a SaaS platform empowering retailer to provide social shopping experiences directly to their consumers, bypassing third-party social platforms. Created to disrupt the online shopping landscape, Sociavia gives retailers unparalleled control over their users’ social experiences. By enabling collaborative shopping, corporate retailers can optimize conversion rates on their websites while delivering better user experiences.
Customer Challenge
Sociavia’s developers faced challenges when working in a shared environment, including delays in setting up environments, difficulties testing changes, and issues arising from dependencies between different teams’ work. These bottlenecks led to slowed development cycles and frequent conflicts during code merges and deployments. Sociavia needed a solution that would allow developers to work independently without interfering with others’ progress or changes, while also ensuring smooth and efficient development and deployment processes.
Solution
IAMOPS designed and implemented individualized development environments for each developer within an AWS Serverless infrastructure. This solution included:
1) Environment Isolation:
- Each developer was allocated their own isolated environment to work on, preventing interference or conflicts with other team members’ work.
2) Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- CloudFormation templates were used to automate the provisioning, configuration, and teardown of resources for each environment. This ensured consistency across environments and provided a scalable, efficient setup.
3) CI/CD Automation:
- GitHub Actions was integrated to handle code integration and deployment of CloudFormation templates. This enabled automated and streamlined environment setup for each developer.
4) Python Automation for Serverless Deployment:
- Python scripts were implemented to automate serverless deployments, further simplifying and optimizing development workflows.
5) Increased Independence:
- By implementing individualized environments, Sociavia’s developers were empowered to work independently, conduct experiments, and test their code without impacting shared resources or encountering conflicts with other developers.
Semantic Release Workflow
Results & Benefits
- Faster Development Cycles: Developers no longer had to wait for shared resources or worry about conflicts with other team members. This resulted in smoother, more efficient workflows and faster development cycles.
- Streamlined Code Reviews: Each developer could test changes within their dedicated environment, making code reviews quicker and more efficient.
- Reduced Merge Conflicts: By working in isolated environments, developers encountered fewer conflicts during the merge process.
- Simplified Debugging: Since each developer had control over their environment, debugging issues became more straightforward, with problems being isolated to specific environments, reducing the time needed to identify and fix issues.
About IAMOPS
IAMOPS is a full DevOps suite company that supports technology companies to achieve intense production readiness.
Our mission is to ensure that our clients’ infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are scalable, mitigate failure points, optimize performance, ensure uptime, and minimize costs.
Our DevOps suite includes DevOps Core, NOC 24/7, FinOps, QA Automation, and DevSecOps to accelerate overall exponential growth.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner and Reseller, we focus on two key pillars: Professionalism by adhering to best practices and utilizing advanced technologies, and Customer Experience with responsiveness, availability, clear project management, and transparency to provide an exceptional experience for our clients.
