DevOps For Salesforce - All You Need To Know

While most modern software development is Agile, small and medium scale businesses do not have the opportunity nor the resources to move in that direction.

Most DevOps teams have intricate mental models to ensure software development of the utmost quality. Communication is the key in all of these instances and it just so happens that a normal or social communication channel.

Some of the common challenges faced by DevOps teams in terms of production and development include:

1. Low testing confidence

2. Non-sync working Environments

3. Issues with Maintenance

4. Production challenges

While there are many more challenges as such, the above-mentioned are the four more pressing ones.

Salesforce for DevOps

DevOps, when combined with Salesforce, gives you a unique weapon for development and production unlike any other.

Salesforce development is a bit different from your average software development processes. This needs you to code less but spends more time developing the frameworks. Thanks to its diversity, the feedback cycles are short and perfectly suited for DevOps teams to work on.

When we combine DevOps with your average Salesforce development cycles, you will be having a continuous loop of feedback mechanisms at play. Forget about improving your production cycles, you can also develop a mini varsity for quality in the output.

Salesforce enables you to create a customized system that can streamline your entire team management and execution frameworks.

These illustrative and data-rich dashboards can slice through the time and effort taken to partake in decisions.

Watch as your team’s productivity and quality skyrocket.

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Salient Features and Outcomes

The following are some of the best salient outcomes you can expect when you merge your typical development cycle of DevOps with Salesforce.

1. Better Collaborations and Effective Communications

When you combine your DevOps with Salesforce, you are effectively connecting your team to a better mode of communication. This will essentially transform the way your organization will communicate with each other in terms of production and development.

Enable easier ways for the operations, business, and development teams to get in touch with relevant stakeholders so that the job gets done faster and smoothly. No more cc or bcc of emails that serve no purpose.

2. Automation of Deployments

Salesforce deployments can be automated by automating your entire production pipelines. No need to wait for prolonged periods of time and approvals. Due to the agile movement of production, the quality will not be an issue at any given point of production.

The team can promote metadata code and configuration changes almost seamlessly. This can be done on multiple Salesforce environments all in the matter of a few clicks. Improve the productivity of all the teams by removing redundant operations and improving product quality.

3. Speedy Feedback Loops

Thanks to its Agile framework build, DevOps is your best bet at implementing a continuously eternal feedback loop. Introduce Salesforce into the mix and you now have a weapon for continuous iterations for increased stability and quality improvement.

Help your development teams to speed up the production process by this continuous and iterative feedback loops.

4. Increased in Release Frequency

Release management is yet another issue that has to be tackled from time and again. DevOps for Salesforce allows your development team for a few feature sets, collecting customer feedback and looping it back to development for better quality and improvements. But there are certain limitations and this can prove to be a challenge.

Thanks to the comprehensive release management tools available (also our superior technical support), you can rest assured that the release frequency can skyrocket fast.

5. Shifting Left

Shifting left is a simple yet effective approach towards product and software testing. Following the agile framework, DevOps for Salesforce allows you to shift your production and code testing to the left. This will save us countless manhours and production resources as you would essentially bring down the entire time and effort for production. This would also eliminate the need for iterations post-deployment. Release with the best quality.

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SP Tech with DevOps for Salesforce

At SP Tech, engineers and architects have been trained (and constantly training) to be the best resource any company could ask for. With great pride and ability, we can confidently state that our resources are the perfect fit for the solution your production team requires.

With our successful history in Salesforce, we are your best bet to make the best out of DevOps for Salesforce. Do let us know if our experts can sit down for a quick phone call with your procurement. We can always add immense value to one another.

Reference: SP Tech