Developer operations (DevOps) as a concept originated out of a need to better align IT operations and software development. Patrick Debois is widely celebrated as the Father of DevOps and the founder of the widely known DevOpsDays conferences. What began as an improvement in agile development is now standard practice in many organizations. DevOps continues to evolve and is being leveraged to support digital transformation initiatives at many enterprises and government agencies.
What is DevOps?
At its core, DevOps is about people and software. It promotes coordination between the team building a product and those that are maintaining various apps and programs. DevOps also governs the policies around the IT environment, deployment, practices, and tools so that any project is deliver efficiently. When it comes to DevOps, technology isn’t the hardest part; it’s the processes and the cultural changes that are the key to DevOps’ success.
Why DevOps for Salesforce?
DevOps for Salesforce enables organizations to operate Salesforce at scale. With the massive adoption of the Salesforce platform across industries, enterprises are leveraging Salesforce DevOps tools to create a competitive differentiation in the marketplace. With increasingly competitive environments, there is a need to accelerate the innovation velocity or the speed at which organizations need to launch innovation out of the production orgs and into the hands of the user, while simultaneously increasing the level of quality, experience, and trust with the new innovation.
Enter the Salesforce DevOps tools with a short feedback loop across planning, testing, deploying, and releasing new software, with real-time monitoring and agile improvisations. Consider this – Developer teams often face challenges such as identifying and managing, merging the conflicts, version control, keeping sandboxes in sync while at the same time getting the growing development team on the same page. It can be a lot to handle for a Salesforce dev team. Add to this the need for a layer of security and compliance in the innovation delivery cycle to meet the ever-growing threat of cybersecurity and ransomware. Having a good DevOps strategy is critical to the success of all Salesforce enterprises.
What Benefits Do Salesforce DevOps Tools Bring?
As with any project, you need to have the right tools for the job. Integrating DevOps and CI (continuous integration) in an automated process that allows developers to push changes out continuously results in seamless faster software releases and fewer bugs. Salesforce tools and platforms like Flosum can reduce manual deployments and free up developer time so they can focus on higher-quality tasks.
As a result, business users and developers alike can have more confidence in deploying software.
Broadly, the benefits of Salesforce DevOps tools include:
- Faster delivery time
- Better collaboration between teams
- More secure and stable releases
- Early defect detection
- Continuous release and deployment
- Optimize salesforce performance
How Can Flosum Help?
Flosum is an all-in-one DevOps solution that is 100% native to Salesforce.
This means that the data or code that is built will not be move out of your Salesforce Org, and there will be no external intervention or third-party tool that gets backdoor access to your org or data. Flosum offers a complete end-to-end solution from ideation to retirement. Flosum features full integration with Salesforce DX and Scratch Orgs. It also establishes a continuous customer feedback loop and improves the quality of the application as well as your business agility
A successful DevOps strategy requires every organization to tap into emerging trends and to be prepared to meet challenges. With the rights Salesforce Devops tools, you can accelerate your success.
Girish Jashnani is Founder and CEO at Flosum, a leading end-to-end secure DevOps, Data Management and Data Protection platform, built 100% natively to Salesforce. Driving developer productivity is one of Jashnani’s career passions.
