Integration with DevOps solutions;
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:04 am
The concept of Site Realiability Engineering (SRE) gained prominence in the market in 2016, with the publication of the Google book “Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Manages Production Systems”.
SRE and DevOps have a lot in common, such as the culture of collaboration between Development and Operations. Another intersection is the principle of automation. However, there are important differences.
While DevOps focuses on automating the software lifecycle, SRE recovers crucial concepts for the operation of applications in production, such as:
Objectives and metrics : definition of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, which help measure the reliability and quality of services.
Structured incident management: includes robust processes for crisis management and posthumous analysis for continuous improvement.
Observability: emphasizes the importance of metrics, logs bc data and tracing to monitor and manage applications.
At SoftDesign, we see SRE as a natural and necessary evolution. We believe that supporting production applications should not be based solely on CI/CD automation, but also on mature processes.
The Future of DevOps
Platforms
In the coming years, you’ll likely hear a lot about platforms, which are being seen as the future of DevOps. The concept began gaining traction in 2016, emerging as an internal solution for companies with many microservices and applications, such as Spotify and Netflix.
In 2020, Spotify released its Backstage framework as open source, and the concept began to grow in the market.
But what is a platform? It is an internal ecosystem of the company packaged in an easy-to-use format for developers. This ecosystem comprises a standardized set of tools, services, processes and infrastructure.
The platform typically includes:
IDP (Internal Developer Portal);
Management of services and their dependencies;
Integration with cloud infrastructure and observability tools.
Having a structured platform helps teams manage complexity by promoting automation, standardization, and autonomy. The platform becomes essential as development complexity increases in organizations.
Simplified example of a Developer Platform built on SoftDesign
Simplified example of a Developer Platform assembled in SoftDesign.
FinOps and GreenOps
Finally, two of the newest concepts for the future of DevOps are FinOps and GreenOps .
FinOps focuses on cloud financial management, with the goal of optimizing infrastructure costs and maximizing the return on cloud investment. This discipline includes cost analysis, transparency for stakeholders, and optimization of practices, seeking better cloud architecture and cost reduction.
GreenOps seeks to optimize cloud resources not only considering cost, but also the environmental impact of these resources.
Finally, with many companies focusing on ESG and sustainability, GreenOps aims to monitor and reduce IT’s carbon footprint, contributing to a more sustainable DevOps future.
SRE and DevOps have a lot in common, such as the culture of collaboration between Development and Operations. Another intersection is the principle of automation. However, there are important differences.
While DevOps focuses on automating the software lifecycle, SRE recovers crucial concepts for the operation of applications in production, such as:
Objectives and metrics : definition of SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, which help measure the reliability and quality of services.
Structured incident management: includes robust processes for crisis management and posthumous analysis for continuous improvement.
Observability: emphasizes the importance of metrics, logs bc data and tracing to monitor and manage applications.
At SoftDesign, we see SRE as a natural and necessary evolution. We believe that supporting production applications should not be based solely on CI/CD automation, but also on mature processes.
The Future of DevOps
Platforms
In the coming years, you’ll likely hear a lot about platforms, which are being seen as the future of DevOps. The concept began gaining traction in 2016, emerging as an internal solution for companies with many microservices and applications, such as Spotify and Netflix.
In 2020, Spotify released its Backstage framework as open source, and the concept began to grow in the market.
But what is a platform? It is an internal ecosystem of the company packaged in an easy-to-use format for developers. This ecosystem comprises a standardized set of tools, services, processes and infrastructure.
The platform typically includes:
IDP (Internal Developer Portal);
Management of services and their dependencies;
Integration with cloud infrastructure and observability tools.
Having a structured platform helps teams manage complexity by promoting automation, standardization, and autonomy. The platform becomes essential as development complexity increases in organizations.
Simplified example of a Developer Platform built on SoftDesign
Simplified example of a Developer Platform assembled in SoftDesign.
FinOps and GreenOps
Finally, two of the newest concepts for the future of DevOps are FinOps and GreenOps .
FinOps focuses on cloud financial management, with the goal of optimizing infrastructure costs and maximizing the return on cloud investment. This discipline includes cost analysis, transparency for stakeholders, and optimization of practices, seeking better cloud architecture and cost reduction.
GreenOps seeks to optimize cloud resources not only considering cost, but also the environmental impact of these resources.
Finally, with many companies focusing on ESG and sustainability, GreenOps aims to monitor and reduce IT’s carbon footprint, contributing to a more sustainable DevOps future.