Accelerating Product Delivery: A CTO’s Guide to Automating Development Environments

Want to learn more about where Environment as a Service is heading? Check out these four trends.

Staging environments - you all know, love, and need them. They streamline your processes and make everything less costly. But what happens when you need another one, then another one, and many more after that? 

Picture this: you built a house from the ground up. Your house has different possible uses - you can choose to live in it, turn it into a business or a medical centre, or continue to build alongside it. Whatever it is you decide to do with your house, your decision requires planning and preparation so your house can be resilient. However, the process to build your house remains the same. 

What makes a great CTO? Is it technical skills? Mindset? Leadership style?

This is what we’ve tried to answer together with Cornel Fătulescu, Chief Platform Officer at Pentalog, during our CTO Fundamentals webinar series. In case you’ve missed the events or want to review the information from time to time, here are a few highlights. 

In an ideal situation, your development team is productive and delivers a great app with minimal downtime. Does this sound too good to be true? That usually means it is.

Cybersecurity breaches are at an all-time high - the global Covid-19 pandemic and the fact that many businesses are now operating remotely makes companies even more vulnerable to malicious attacks. Despite organizations strengthening their defenses against cyber threats, 95% of cybersecurity breaches are still caused by human error.

You want to deliver a flawless app to your stakeholders, not overwork your team members, and get to production within your allotted time frame. But wait, a bottleneck appears. 

As a business, having your product run on a high-performant infrastructure is a must. When everything runs smoothly, your customers have a great experience, and you can see your traffic increase exponentially.

Bunnyshell is growing into a collaborative platform for teams: developers, product managers, QA Engineers, and Sales, supporting the new way of building software that involves more people than developers.

Software as a Service (SaaS) is now the largest segment in the public cloud market. This model transformed having to be a large “well-oiled” company with lots of resources to virtually anyone being able to turn their ideas into software distributed to customers worldwide.