Quick, Efficient and Reliable: A Developer’s View of the aurOps model

Disrupting Our Own Industry Part IV

Times are changing. If you are someone who works in IT, you will understand how drastically our lives have changed over the past few months. And if you are someone who works as a developer, the shift in work cultures has probably impacted your work even more greatly. Software developers are responsible for ensuring a sound technical base of the product they are building, and that’s easy. They need to go through developing code within a tightly wound, cyclical process, by innovating at every step – and that’s the challenge that they love most. 

In the last part of this blog series, we spoke about how we rolled out our E2E delivery aurOps model for our internal consumption. In this blog, we move into the developers' shoes to understand their experience of aurOps platform.

Challenges faced by Developers

Deciding the right infrastructure, clusters, operating systems, technology stacks and perform configurations of the same are almost like stringing a complex puzzle together! However, as interesting as they are, most of these tasks are repetitive, and end up being mundane after a point. Moreover, setting up the right development environment while going back and forth with the branching logic is also extremely time consuming. 

During the development process, it is of utmost importance that developers have all the right documents, artefacts and client requirements in a single place to understand their work at hand. If the information is scattered, it causes confusion, which further derails their understanding and widens the communication gap between teams. Ultimately, it ends up jeopardizing quality delivery. 

To further add to this, basic unit testing for end-to-end testing might be the most frustrating for developers. It is almost always under-appreciated by the client or project stakeholders, and sticking to the testing discipline to meet project deadlines effectively is another ballgame altogether. This testing also appears to slow the development process in the short-term, and adds little or no long term impact.

And the cycle does not stop here. The deployment process is no quicker. Provisioning the servers, settings up SSL certificates and deploying the code finally are all manual processes that increase timelines, and decrease patience levels. 

The onus to ensure all of this is streamlined effectively falls on the shoulders of the developers. And in case of the tiniest silly mistakes, correcting them is equivalent to writing a new layer of code altogether which eats into precious time. Most developers, thus, get caught in the midst of the rut, and have little or no bandwidth to actually think of innovation.

The solution? Move to aurOps!

Through our proprietary E2E aurOps platform, we strive to keep coding interesting for the developer, while keeping the objective of generating true business value in mind at all times. Built on the philosophy of collaborative disruption, DevOps principles and cutting edge technological integration, the platform has truly revolutionised the way we code at iauro! Here are a few ways in which developers will benefit from it:

Visibility:

The platform syncs all developer tasks with the correct project requirements, features, user stories, scenarios, prototypes, LLDs and HLDs. Everything thus remains in one place, and is easily accessible!

Visibility has helped us reduce the need-requirement gap by upto 40%!

Transparency:

The platform provides developers with a crystal clear view into their tasks, deadlines and client requirements.

Transparency has reduced the communication gap across internal teams and customer demands by up to 70%!

Complexity Abstraction:

Through in-built automated features, developers can now set up automation led infrastructure through a few clicks. It also helps them explore environment automation and best practices for branching logic.

Through complexity abstraction, we have been able to save ~2 Hrs every day for each developer, making the entire delivery process up to 25% faster!

Standardisation & Quality Control:

The platform enables standardisation across different requirement sets, and ensures high level quality of every line of code. It also keeps track of compliance measures and security, while linking tasks to code traceability. Agile & Scrum methodologies enabled, this helps them multitask, and focus on faster, better solution deliveries

DevOps automation:

Our ready to deploy technology assembly lines creates custom pipelines for developers, and integrates the right toolchains, tech stacks and features in one place, making for seamless configuration throughout the entire pipeline.

This automation makes Pipeline Trigger Frequency go up by ~150%! It also saves ~1hr 45min per deployment for each developer, making for an overall 87.5%* efficiency increase! *(Previously taking 2hr per deployment manually)

Through the aurOps model, we have been able to create significant disruption in developer productivity, and it has generated massive impact and business value for us. This has given us a much better idea of the way our teams operate as well, making for holistic upskilling at each rung of the ladder. Overall, the aurOps model does not only aid customer satisfaction, but also developer happiness, and that’s extremely critical to keep the business running.

The happier your developers are, the more innovative your solutions will be!