The Power of LowOps

I'm Konner, a Strategic Sales Executive here at Cycle.io. With a background rooted in DevOps and CI/CD, I've dedicated over three years to engaging with developers and the DevOps community, consistently learning and gaining insights from each conversation.

DevOps

One thing I’ve noticed this year is a common pattern between all the companies I’ve met with. That pattern is a desire to either implement DevOps or improve existing practices and processes.

Some companies are several years into their DevOps adoption and wondering why things aren’t as “optimized” as they thought they’d be. Others are just starting, but wondering if they’ll be able to truly adopt DevOps paradigms in their organization, hearing from peers about challenges and outcomes that are less thrilling than what they’d thought.

Another piece of this puzzle that seems to be common is, many of these companies adopted Kubernetes early on, based on its position as an industry standard (for the enterprise). And sure, sometimes K8s is a good option, but more companies than ever are noticing that its not the “starting point” others in the industry were hyping it up to be, and to be frank it's a bad fit for a lot of organizations.

So at this point you should ask yourself:

"do I have the same needs as a company like google or other FAANG mega corps?"

If the answer is no, there's a much better path for you.

LowOps

The Cycle platform was founded to bridge the gap between dev and ops in a standardized and automated way.. Once people learn about Cycle the narrative almost changes immediately. We take a LowOps approach which means companies can elevate DevOps without compromising on features or capabilities.

We use the term LowOps to describe our take on what’s necessary to be successful on the platform. LowOps means that, while you’ll still be responsible for some of the operations decisions (allowing for a greater level of flexibility and choice), the platform itself takes care of MOST things for you.

For example:

If you’re starting a project from scratch there may be 100 or 1000 questions to answer during the architecture phase. Cycle users start at question 80 or 800 (80% of the way there). These choices represent the “opinionated” part of our opinionated platform and provide standardization at the platform level, which makes it incredibly easy to reason about, debug, maintain, and programmatically integrate with.

After diving into more about LowOps and the LowOps strategy of our platform, conversations tend to go from “why wouldn’t I just use Kubernetes?” to “why didn't we know about this sooner?”.

A LowOps Path Forward

Ultimately, changing minds starts with having a single conversation.

We speak with a lot of skeptics, but those are some of my favorite conversations. Once someone realizes there is a better way to do these things a weight lifts off their shoulders. And as profitability comes more and more into focus (especially in engineering departments), we’re confident that LowOps will become the best path forward.

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