DevOps a few year old concept has captured
the whole market.All top companies have carted from traditional to digital
approach.It has multitudinous benefits including shorter development cycles,increased deployment frequency and time to market.
DevOps killing Top 10 companies
1.
Amazon
Initially, Amazon
worked to dedicated servers. They faced provocations in predicting how much equipment to buy to meet traffic demands. As a result, about
40 percent of Amazon's server capacity was wasted
When Amazon carted to
AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud , it allowed engineers to scale capacity up or
down incrementally. Within a year Amazon moved to AWS and allowed engineers to
deploycode every 11.7 seconds, on average.
The agile approach also reduced both the number and duration of outages,
resulting in increased revenue.
2. Netflix
When Netflix evolved its business model from shipping DVDs to streaming
video over the web, it waded into uncharted waters. There weren't any
commercial tools, so it turned to open source solutions. it created the Simian Army, a suite of automated tools that stress test Netflix's
infrastructure and allow the company to proactively identify and resolve
vulnerabilities before they impact customers.
Nteflix uses
automation and open source and today engineers deploy code thousands of times
per day. The rate at which this entertainment game-changer has adopted new
technologies and implemented them into its DevOps approach is setting new
standards in IT.
3. Target
Inside Target,several
groups are into DevOps.These days DevOps not only powers the development of
projects like Cartwheel, Target's mobile savings app, but also has
transformed the organization's culture. Target now hosts DevOpsDays for its
internal teams, featuring demos, open labs, lightning talks, breakout sessions,
and guest keynotes. It also continues to spread the good word through the
business community by sponsoring Minneapolis DevOpsDays meetups.
4. Walmart
While Walmart is the king of big box retailers in the American
heartland, online it has always struggled in the shadow of Amazon. To gain
ground, it assembled a cutting-edge team through several tech acquisitions and
founded WalmartLabs, the retailer's technology innovation and
development arm, in 2011.
WalmartLabs then
adopted DevOps to compete in market.It incorporated OneOps cloud-based technology, which automates and accelerates
application deployment. It has also created several open source tools,
including Hapi, a Node.js framework for building
applications and services that allows developers to focus on writing reusable
application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure. More
recently, it deployed more than 100,000 OpenStack cores to build its own private cloud, and it continues to evolve its agile approach.
5. Nordstrom
Its still working on
waterfall model, big batch releases, and lots of shared services when it
undertook rewriting its in-store clienteling application. When it finally
launched the program two and a half years later in 2011, it was already
irrelevant.Nordstrom's customer mobile app team was the groundbreaker for its
DevOps makeover. After surfacing the reasons behind mobile's 22- to 28-week
lead time, the team broke down the divide between dev and product support and
organized squads around value. The company also migrated to continuous planning
and moved to a single backlog of work. As a result, bugs went down, throughput
went up, and releases went from twice per year to monthly. More importantly,
Nordstrom realized these methods could work for any team, and it's continuing
to apply them across the organization.
6. Facebook
Facebook changed the whole concept about
software development. Many of the tenets it adopted early on, including code
ownership, incremental changes, automation, and continuous improvement, were
DevOps in all but name. Its approach has matured over the years, and it
recently migrated its entire
infrastructure and back-end IT to
the Chef configuration management platform (and made some of its cookbooks available to the public).
Its recently announced
bi-weekly app updates effectively served notice that constant, rapid refreshes
for mobile apps are the new normal, and any company that can't keep up risks
getting left behind.
7. Etsy
Initially, Etsy struggled with slow, painful site updates that frequently
caused the site to go down. In addition to frustrating visitors, any downtime
impacted sales for Etsy's millions of users who sold goods through the online
marketplace and risked driving them to a competitor.
With the help of a new
technical management team, Etsy transitioned from its waterfall model, which
produced four-hour full-site
deployments twice weekly, to a more agile
approach. Today, it has a fully automated deployment pipeline, and its continuous delivery practices have reportedly resulted in
more than 50 deployments a day with fewer disruptions. And though Etsy
has no DevOps group per se, its commitment to collaboration across teams has
made the company a model of the DevOps framework.
8. Adobe
Adobe's DevOps
transformation began five years ago when the company moved from packaged
software to a cloud services model and was suddenly faced with making a
continuous series of small software updates rather than big, semi-annual
releases.
To maintain the required
pace, Adobe uses CloudMunch's
end-to-end DevOps platform to automate
and manage its deployments. Because it integrates with a variety of software,
developers can continue to use their preferred tools, and its multi-project
view allows them to see how a change to any one Adobe product affects the
others.
9. Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures
Entertainment's Digital Media
Group (DMG) faced significant provocations in delivering a software system to
manage entertainment assets for end users. Manual processes and other hurdles
typically resulted in a months-long delay between completion of software
development and delivery.
To smooth out this
"last mile," DMG implemented an automated cloud delivery system
composed of open source tools and SaaS solutions. Since embracing a continuous
delivery model, DMG has cut down its months-long delivery time to just minutes.
This allowed developers to focus on adding features and reduced idle resources
and associated costs.
10. Fidelity Worldwide Investment
Like other
enterprises, Fidelity
Worldwide Investment had several business units developing
software applications. Apps were deployed manually across hundreds of servers,
with each app requiring customization. Manually introduced errors frequently
broke the process.
When it came time to
develop a critical trading application with a firm launch date, the
organization knew its error-prone manual process would jeopardize the project.
Fidelity used the opportunity to embrace a DevOps approach and implement
an automatedsoftware release framework that would enable
it to meet the rollout schedule.
That solution resulted
in more than $2.3 million per year in cost avoidance for that app alone. Since
then, the Fidelity team has automated the release of dozens of applications,
reducing release times from two to three days to one to two hours and
decreasing test-team downtime. The process has also made it easier to display
regulatory compliance and has enabled predictable release schedules that
stakeholders can rely on.
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