Leveraging Agile Development Through Cloud Computing
June 17, 2013
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Abdul Salam.
Here are some ways that cloud technology leverages Agile development: Agile took off as a philosophy because the tech industry is simply impatient by nature. What used to take two to three years to develop now only takes less than a year. And with cloud computing and virtualization, Agile development is taken to a new level. This only shows that Agile and Cloud are meant for each other.
Setup an unlimited number of staging and testing servers.
Development teams used to deploy physical staging and testing servers so they became limited because of hardware resource cost. But with cloud computing, they can virtualize an unlimited number of servers and be able to do parallel work as is dictated by the Agile philosophy…
The Cloud brings Agile closer to its ideals.
With capabilities like having unlimited servers to work with, development teams can become truly parallel and work out all of the inefficiencies brought by resource limitation. Because no matter how agile your development is, you are always delayed with the provisioning of physical servers and setting up necessary software like Oracle databases and web servers. This limitation is now a thing of the past, what used to take weeks of setup can now be done in under ten minutes…
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