Digital Transformation Tips from the Experts

In the previous blog posts, we have deepened concepts like DevOps methodology, Cloud, Security and their connected tools and practices, by explaining how Digital Transformation influenced and radically changed the company’s approach to these three areas with the aim of obtaining a more flexible and agile applicative development.

Today we live in a continuously technology, economic and politic evolving era, and the market players essentially need to adapt fast to this period of changing. These things occur especially in the financial and banking sectors, in which take place the necessity of overcoming the client’s expectations and of providing a continuous and efficient service.

Today, farms are starting to invest in DevOps methodologies and practices, since they have understood their importance in making development stages faster, reliable and with fewer mistakes.

Lots of companies are implementing a DevOps strategy to make the communication between developers and operations faster and smarter in order to accelerate the software development phases and to make business more agile. It often happens that during this process, companies are more focused on the DevOps tools without considering the professional resources needed for this change. The DevOps methodology needs the right people in the right role with specific competences.

In the previous articles, we already explained “What is DevOps” and which are the origins of this methodology. Now, let’s see the pillars standing at the basis of this change that help the optimization and improvement of the software development phases and the obtaining of a competitive advantage.

The DevOps practices implementation can make the software release process faster and at the same time it can ensure the creation of high-quality applications. The DevOps methodology can’t be simply acquired, incorporated or taken as a reference model. If your company is considering the opportunity to adopt this methodology, you can find below the 6 main steps to face this important change.

The company’s culture and the way of working on development projects are evolving radically. Adapting to this change means innovation, faster processes, happier customers and even work with a smile!

What is the PaaS?

The PaaS (Platform As A Service) is a cloud development environment through which the provider provides hardware, operating system, application platforms and the whole stack required for the development process: web server, database system management, support tools, development tools and other resources useful for the application development realization.

In the actual scenario, the biggest banks, the financial companies and all other enterprises, have to face the digital transformation in an innovative way to stay competitive and to satisfy the customers’ needs. DevOps and agile methodology adoption and its corresponding infrastructural adjustment through containers and process development automation practices, are fundamental to ensure success and quality to the application development process, in a fast and flexible way. In the following article we would like to analyse how a bank must exploit these innovative drivers to implement a successful strategy.

Containerization is the increasingly used technology that allows the collaboration between different teams (development, security, quality control). All news concerning containers become immediately popular, especially talking about orchestration. What is it, why is it so famous, and which are the best tools for companies?