The Future of Development: Will Remote Take Over Local?

When we think about a good developer team, we think about hiring the most skilled and experienced individuals. But is that enough to deliver high-velocity work? 

In this article, we’ll focus on explaining what development velocity is, how to measure it, and how to increase it without sacrificing quality by using an Environment as a Service solution. Stay with us until the end to also find out how Bunnyshell can make your work easier. 

Ephemeral environments are a growing trend because they can replace or reduce the time spent in staging environments, thus significantly cutting down on development costs. 

Thanks to the advancements in cloud computing, today, almost anything can come in the form of aaS (as a Service). From the well-known Software as a Service (SaaS) to more “exotic” offerings such as Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Blockchain as a Service (BaaS), or IoT as a Service (IoTaaS), all these systems have the same core characteristic: a web-based interface through which the customer interacts with the system.

Setting up test environments presents challenges such as management -  how are you going to manage all of them? Additionally, manually creating these environments means extra time, effort, and resources for your DevOps teams and not only. But, there are solutions.  

The IT industry is changing every day with new trends and developments. Because of this, a major shift has occurred towards test environments, driven entirely by automation and self-service. This is where Environment as a Service (EaaS) comes in, supporting faster innovation and eliminating any environment bottlenecks.

As we’ve previously illustrated in ourWhat is EaaSarticle, Environment as a Service has the application and its environment version controlled and managed as a single entity. A few immediate benefits of this approach are lowered costs, increased speed, and experimentation possibilities.

If you’ve followed our blog for a while, you know we often talk about the benefits of DevOps: faster delivery of products and features, more stable environments, improved communication and collaboration, among many others.

We have a very ambitious vision: take over the tech industry and become one of the best environment as a service platform on the market. But vision without action is just a dream, and to take action, we need a great team.