By Eyal Ahimas, CEO at IAMOPS
DevOps has many advantages and large enterprises are surely reaping its benefits. However, it’s challenging for startups to embrace this trend. In this conversation with our Co-founder and CEO, Eyal Ahimas, he shares with us how DevOps can effectively contribute to startup success.
IAMOPS: What DevOps practices help startups?
Eyal:For startups to succeed, their product must be available to its target market at its best performance level. DevOps plays a significant part in making this possible. The Development Team is always releasing new versions to fix bugs and improve software performance so they want to make this process fast, secure and easy.
Another thing is to ensure that the cloud environment, where these versions operate, is optimized to the software needs. This way, they can be assured that their target market is enjoying the latest and the best version available.
IAMOPS: How can keeping up with good DevOps lead startups to success?
Eyal:Their product performance success is dependent on 2 things: software performance and cloud infrastructure. To achieve growth, software developers need to build and implement a code architecture that performs in a desirable manner.
On the other hand, there is this cloud computing environment where this software is processed. This infrastructure also needs to be designed and developed in a way that meets the needs of the software. Now, the end-user experience is based on how well these 2 components operate together.
IAMOPS: What can you say about software optimization?
Eyal:Most of the time, startup founders and CEOs focus mainly on software optimization. It’s understandable because at the early stage, they want to prove their concept. They want to see that it’s working so it’s like running the software on a PC or perhaps even on a weak cloud infrastructure. They want the investor to realize what they are basically doing and trying to achieve. This is good but if they want to achieve more, they have to consider the end-user experience.
To optimize experience delivery to their target audience, their focus should no longer be solely on software anymore but also on the cloud environment.
IAMOPS: What could be an ideal DevOps for startups?
Eyal:A good DevOps for high-growth companies will bring their cloud infrastructure environment to a level of 10 out of 10. If their software is optimized and its performance is 10 out of 10 but their cloud infrastructure performs 2 out of 10, their overall product performance will still be unsatisfactory. It is everyone’s goal for both the software and the cloud infrastructure to perform at their best.
IAMOPS: How does DevOps make startups more stable?
Eyal:The software is developed in a way that it generates a session for every user. The more people use this application, the more we need computing resources. So, we need to plan a computing infrastructure that would enable multiple sessions for the app to operate.
DevOps are like an architect of a building. The structure should be well-designed so people can safely go in and out of the building. For example, in the mall, shoppers want to safely navigate the place from floor to floor, get into shops and have an enjoyable experience. That’s how the software of an application works.
Once you operate this application, first of all, you want it to be secure. How DevOps does this is that they analyze the requirements and work out their best to meet every single one of them.
IAMOPS: How does DevOps make startups more scalable?
Eyal:Scalability is keeping a high level of performance and keeping in mind why the application users increase. It doesn’t matter how many users are using the application and what type of usage it is, as long as we keep the same level of performance. This is the main responsibility of DevOps.
In designing a new infrastructure, DevOps examines the product architecture from the software side. They study the software architecture and its behavior. They examine the resources required in terms of computing, storage and networking. Once they have all the essential data, they can start designing the computing infrastructure that best suits the software needs.
“DevOps enables the application or a given software to perform in the same optimum level no matter how large the demand is. So, this is how DevOps leads you to success. It’s mandatory; you cannot win without it.”
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