No DevOps? No Problem — Surya Oruganti // Argonaut

Quotes

• "Argonauts are this group of heroes who set out on an epic quest to do something considered impossible, but they achieve it anyway. And they come back victorious." - Surya Oruganti

• 'How can we enable larger teams, not just small, scrappy startups? With the rise of serverless, different hosted solutions, where all the computing, all the resources, everything is managed, including scaling, etc., this push has been very successful. There is still a point at which this kind of solution today does not scale entirely." - Surya Oruganti

• "No Ops is something that Heroku pioneered, where you have your development and code written out. All you need to do is push your code to your Git repository. And that is magically taken, put into production, and made available to your users. It's as simple as it gets and supremely valuable for small scrappy teams." - Surya Oruganti

• "After the application goes live, you have two or three steps: how do you make observability into the center process, logs, monitoring, alerting, and so on? And there are other data activities like maintenance and cost optimization, visibility, etc., can also come into play when you're looking at a larger organization. If you can squish all this into one product, that's essentially no-ops." - Surya Oruganti

• "Typically, startups have very generous AWS, GCP Azure credits. And as they go on, cost optimization starts coming into play. You have a shift where folks migrate from something like Heroku to AWS to keep control of costs simultaneously and better control over what is happening with their systems." - Surya Oruganti

• "One of the largest reasons serverless has so much traction is because of combining these two factors, right? One, users don't have to worry about managing the infrastructure itself. And two, they're guaranteed to work at any load. Right? So, uptime and scalability are no problems." - Surya Oruganti

• "We take the happy middle ground between these two areas as an approach at Argonaut. We bring the benefits of no-ops to a platform such as AWS or GCP. And enable you to be fully future-proof at Cloud Scale without worrying about how the setup and complexity need to be managed." - Surya Oruganti

• "We have a product that combines a few of these factors. We have prefabbed TerraForm scripts to provision infrastructure on top of an AWS or GCP for provisioning databases, your Kafka, Redis, instances, etc. All the things like the lower-level details like VPC, subnets, and access controls are also taken care of. So that's one part, and the other is the application deployment side. We also have a dynamic generation of CI pipelines, where users can drag and drop whatever pieces they want included in their pipeline." - Surya Oruganti

• "Users get to deal with the higher-level primitives such as environments and applications, and they can very clearly do the tasks they want to do. On the other side, Argonaut automatically generates all of these configurations and provisions them on the user's AWS or GCP accounts, along with complete configurations." - Surya Oruganti