Even though Intel is the leader in the technology market, many of these changes have been made for a long time. Since 2017 the transition to the Agile and DevOps methodology was not obvious and was experimental. Moreover, any changes can lead to conflicts and failures within the organization’s structure, which accordingly requires time to eliminate them and prevent them in the future.
After receiving a positive result after the first applications and training of employees, the company set specific goals and began introducing these changes everywhere. In addition, the move to Agile and DevOps has brought with it many spin-off changes, such as better approaches to leveraging data from systems and cloud services to ensure uptime. It took time to design these services for the company, implement them in business processes and train employees. A more flexible and faster development method required a fundamentally different approach to familiar processes, making the transition time-consuming.
DevOps implies interaction and integration of work processes between various structural departments of the company: in the case of Intel, these are development and maintenance specialists. Intel uses PaaS to monitor systems and use them for delivery and scalability. With specific prescribed standards for each department’s use of this tool, the use of PaaS is an undoubted advantage that simplifies many processes. According to this case, no irreversible actions are performed using PaaS, leaving only the advantages of use: fast iteration cycles and reduced costs. The multidisciplinary toolkit meets DevOps requirements by integrating functionality and activities across Intel company departments.
By its very nature, DevOps improves the efficiency and competitiveness of a business by delivering faster to the end customer. The benefits of success also include process automation and quick feedback. However, DevOps must always be accompanied by effective management and implementation of the necessary tools (Luz et al., 2019). PaaS responds to the DevOps philosophy by reducing the time to deploy software applications by bringing many remote developers together.
On the other hand, mistakes or oversights in PaaS design affect the entire company. Therefore, in the future, the company must constantly monitor the very structure of PaaS, constantly adapting this software to its own needs and maintaining a high level of information security since data is transferred through public communication channels. Otherwise, problems may arise due to using PaaS if the correct requirements specified above are not followed.
References
Luz, W. P., Pinto, G., & Bonifácio, R. (2019). Adopting DevOps in the real world: A theory, a model, and a case study. Journal of Systems and Software, 157, 110384.