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DevOps — A Booster or A Brake for Your Business?

Here's what to consider in your DevOps adoption.
Every company has to remain competitive in order to survive and succeed. This means your business must innovate and constantly improve your products and internal workflows. Whether you sell physical merchandise, provide some online services, or deliver values through a web-based application, your business definitely has to build some code, run it in production and manage some IT infrastructure at an ever-growing rate. But how do you achieve this?

Growing the numbers of software engineers can only get you so far. If all of the internal processes and workflows are manual, the numbers of software developers or Ops engineers become irrelevant, if their productivity is capped by some performance bottleneck or roadblock in form of approval from some executive. This is why many businesses, startups and global enterprises alike decide to undergo a DevOps transformation.

What is DevOps And What Is It Based On?

The DevOps culture of IT operations is a practical implementation of the Agile methodology of software development and infrastructure operations. It is centered on the automation of routine operations to free up the resources and time needed to innovate and improve your business performance. Let’s take a closer look at what DevOps is and what it can do.

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If Bitcoin Fails, Will Blockchain Technology Ultimately Follow?

A year ago, on December 17, 2017, Bitcoin price reached its all-time maximum — $19,783.21. Since then, it has steadily declined, just like the faith of investors in cryptocurrencies, and today, it is close to just $3,000.

Experts say this downfall is happening due to disheartening discoveries, like the one that nearly 85 percent of ICO’s in 2017 were a scam, or that more than 50 percent of Bitcoin startups stop functioning in four months after their ICOs.

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Terraform Module for Automated MongoDB Backup

MongoDB is one of the most widely used databases out there, and creating backups for it is a crucial, yet routine task not to be taken lightly. This is why we decided to automate the process.

Manual backups are utterly outdated, not to mention this means keeping in mind all the peculiarities and tagging the copies by hand. Automated backup requires using certain libraries that are not present by default, and the DevOps team will most likely learn of this the hard way.

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Blockchain-Based Excise Stamp Replacement System

The Task

Using QR codes as a replacement for excise stamps would allow decentralized and transparent control of the consumption goods logistics, delivery, and selling from the supermarkets and shops. This would eliminate the possibility for fraud and selling counterfeit wares, as well as increase the tax revenues.

The Solution

We have designed and developed a blockchain-based system that uses QR codes instead of excise stamps. Any manufacturer of excise goods can order the required amount of QR codes from the governmental authority. Each unit of the goods is then marked with the QR code, like a pack of cigarettes as shown in our example:

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Why You Should Not Switch to Microservices

Should your product be built as a monolith or consist of microservices from the start? When is the right time to adopt microservices? Why would you need to fall back?

Microservices has boomed lately and many businesses are considering moving to this software architecture. There are multiple opinions expressed on the benefits and necessity of moving from a monolith app to microservices or serverless computing. Using microservices can bring efficiency to workflows in finances, retail, consulting, banking, marketing, data analytics, and other industries.