DevOps Services

Automation for builds, releases and health monitoring

CONSISTENT 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 DELIVERY

Automated pipelines and testing create a more agile, productive development lifecycle and quicker time to release

MORE TRANSPARENCY

More opportunities for feedback and iteration throughout development offers better outcomes (and no surprises) at delivery

ABILITY TO SCALE

Operating in automated, cloud-based infrastructures means it’s easy to scale when you need (and only pay for what you use).

As Jez Humble has been quoted, DevOps is “A never-ending process of continual improvement”. However, it does have a definite start – your first plan to forge a DevOps roadmap and transform your software release processes, visualize cloud operations and identify traceable metrics.

MercuryWorks’ DevOps consultants develop pragmatic plans to help transform your delivery organization. Achieve results by improving the way engineering and operations teams collaborate, select toolchains, adopt Agile software development practices and release software.

We start by assessing your existing DevOps practices (or pre-automated build/release/ops methods), analyze key points for process improvement and recommend both strategies and actionable tactics to simplify deployment and improve outcomes.

Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) is the first engineering cornerstone that enables the classic “Three Ways” of DevOps. When an engineering organization ties vertical-sliced work to short-lived branches and automated releases, software development flow and quality both make huge strides forward.

Imagine not only fast and reliable releases but also having each developer’s changes to an application automatically bug tested as they move through the pipeline. For organizations accustomed to manual releases, the immediate benefits of quick and frequent releases, infrastructure built with code and verified software releases is an incredibly empowering shift.

In addition to the automated testing and build/release verification built into our CI/CD pipelines, ongoing code health checks and application monitoring and alerting are essential for in any end-to-end DevOps strategy. Using SonarQube/SonarCloud and similar commercial offerings, we include code health checks INTO the CI/CD pipeline to ensure test coverage, gauge ongoing code health and add the confidence that the multi-times-a-day released software is sound.

Ongoing monitoring, automated alerts, auto-failovers and auto-scaling maximize uptime and help anticipate future problems for continuous improvement and iteration. Microsoft Azure Monitor and particularly Application Insights are key tools that we use to make use aware of application performance, exceptions and/or outages.