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Date Published
Author
Artas Bartas
Word count
1084
Language
English
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None

Summary

In Japan, the rail company's punctuality is attributed to dedicated tracks, modern signalling systems, and trained staff following standard procedures. Similarly, in software development, teams need robust infrastructure, automated integration suits, and engineers trained in DevOps principles to deliver high-quality features on time and within budget. However, traditional CMSes often hinder developer productivity by forcing developers to manually migrate data and apply changes to production, leading to psychological toll and grueling deployments. A new content management platform has addressed this issue by introducing environment aliases, allowing developers to build new features in isolation, test against production data, automate migration, recover from bad deploys, and deploy changes instantaneously. This enables teams to adopt DevOps principles and improve software performance, leading to a lasting competitive advantage.