Scaling up data is certainly no easy task; it takes time, money, and a team that can facilitate growth. This is why DevOps is important. Sure, starting out, your teams were small, agile, and in close proximity. But as you grow, your data grows, and if your DevOps teams are not scalable and synergized, scaling data can be difficult, if not impossible.
Early wins are important. But keeping your eye on longevity is even more so. Playing the long game is part of that, and if you’re in the business of big data and software development to collect, churn, and make data useful for business decisions, you should be looking at your DevOps as a whole.
“The intention of DevOps is to create better-quality software more quickly and with more reliability while inviting greater communication and collaboration between teams,” Samarpit Tuli explained in a DZone article.
Overcoming DevOps growth challenges is also not for large enterprise companies anymore. Any business looking to speed software development cycles and create streamlined business processes is applicable. Let’s take a closer look at how you can scale data by scaling DevOps.
It All Begins With Culture
Scaling data by scaling your DevOps is more than just a personnel equation. It is more of a cultural one. In fact, you should be approaching your DevOps growth in the same incremental and agile way as you do your software development process.
What started as a small team has grown, and continues to grow, so it’s essential to bring everyone up to speed and ensure the culture remains intact. This ensures your company culture scales as well as your team.
Plan Accordingly and Choose the Right Development Tools
Before scaling gets too far ahead of you, you’ll need to ensure you have the development tools at the ready. Every DevOps team knows the value of the right tool. And there are plenty of them available. However, not all will facilitate the growth your team needs in order to scale data.
For instance, Kubernetes Helm repository provides scalable development at an enterprise-ready level. It can accommodate as many users as needed with scalable storage. Other development tools that can be useful for scaling data and your business include Docker, Ansible, GIT, Chef, Vault, and more.
But DevOps Tools Need to Be Accessible
You can have the best, most innovative and automated development tools on the planet for your DevOps team to scale data. But if you don’t make these tools accessible to everyone, it’s not going to work. Your DevOps tools need to be easy to learn, use, and have a simple approach.
For instance, Docker container images are gaining popularity among teams due to the collaboration, ease of access, and automation when it comes to application deployment. Tools that are accessible to your DevOps team, regardless of their location is a must in order to scale.
Add Value to the Conversation While Scaling
Scaling data and your business can take up a lot of time from the top. But in order to ensure scalability, you’ll need to scale and not forget those that are making it possible for the business to grow. This makes it important to express the value your DevOps teams are creating, and show appreciation.
In most scenarios, scaling efficiently via development teams saves money, time, and other resources. Showing a bit of appreciation that speaks to those teams can go a long way. And remember, scaling data and your business is difficult when you lose those valuable team members.
Scaling Data Is About Accountability
The accountability will shift when scaling your DevOps teams. Managing a handful of developers and engineers is no longer the case. There will be teams of DevOps needing to be managed, meaning that you’ll need to amp up the accountability.
To make accountability a priority while scaling data and your business, you can set up an environment that allows for success and failure in the software development process. Yes, failure. By rewriting the narrative of failure, you’re making it much easier to have accountability play a role, which in turn will bring issues forward faster to be fixed. Approach, workflow, and incentives are all key aspects of your new accountability environment.
Is Your Business Ready to Scale Up Data With Scalable DevOps?
The above highlights how you can take a proactive approach to scaling your data and business via scalable DevOps. The above is not the be-all, end-all. However, the above does serve as a great place to begin your scaling efforts in the space of software development and big data.
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