DevOps Services: The Painkiller for In-House Software Teams
DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development with IT operations. These practices result in more automated and integrated processes, better work product, and shorter time to delivery.
For over 20 years, MercuryWorks has been helping top businesses and organizations improve profitability and solve their most difficult problems through mission-critical software. We have designed and developed thousands of web applications and websites to meet our clients’ diverse and demanding business needs with an eye towards future growth. Our process sets us apart as a true partner in application development.
Our Custom Software Solutions
Consistent ProcessesConsistent and reliable processes
DevOps takes the “one person who knows how to build that app” out of the equation by letting the cloud do the work
Continuous DeliveryContinuous delivery
Automated pipelines and testing create a more agile, productive development and quicker time to release
More TransparencyMore transparency
More opportunities for feedback and iteration throughout the development process offer better outcomes (and no surprises) at delivery
Ability to Scale Ability to scale
Operating in automated, cloud-based environments and infrastructures means it’s easy to scale when you need (and only pay for what you use).
Our DevOps Process
DevOps encompasses a broad range of specialties while fitting into value chains of software development and business planning. The following are the core components MercuryWorks applies when building software:
PlanThe beginning of a solid DevOps strategy, planning involves assessing current resources, evaluating and choosing between full cloud infrastructure or cloud platform models for your business needs, and infrastructure sizing/high availability (HA) planning for scaling.
BuildImplementing infrastructure as code with versioned scripts, automating software builds and implementation of data migration scripts
TestAutomated testing is built into every stage of the deployment pipeline, including unit, integration and functional testing, quality checks and conditional/gate failures.
ReleaseWhere the rubber meets the road on a successful build, release is the actual automated deploy to cloud infrastructure, along with verification.
MonitorOngoing monitoring, automated monitoring with triggered alerts, auto-failovers, auto-scaling and consumption observation maximize uptime and anticipate future problems for continuous improvement and iteration.
With DevOps MercuryWorks teams bring these three core Agile principles to life:
- Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
- Develop working software frequently
- Collaborate between development and business/user needs
MercuryWorks DevOps in the real world
In multiple applications for Coca-Cola, MercuryWorks staff automated cloud asset creation, web and native app builds and automated releases.
The One World Site Alliance application posed the need to serve a global audience – so we deployed to multiple global cloud locations for maximum performance and availability.
Franklin Street’s enterprise software serves a large user base with rapidly-changing features. We applied feature flags to separate release from deployment and control feature access.
Sound like how you want your software built?
Then you want MercuryWorks to build your next application, improve your in-house deployment practices or move your manual builds and releases to the cloud. Whether using Azure or Amazon Web Services, Azure DevOps or GitLab, we’ve got you covered. (Not sure what you need yet? We’ll help you decide.)