Why good instance management is key to the software development lifecycle

The language has changed in 20 years, but the problems haven’t. And, despite all the technology available, we still have software development pipelines contingent on manual processes. Today’s software project failures might not tank an entire enterprise, but as an industry, we need to move beyond how we did things 20 years ago, and manually managing instances or security is a death knell to any software development lifecycle.

Manual instance management demands significant time and effort from developers, leading to delayed delivery and inefficient operational processes. These inefficiencies then divert resources from high-priority projects, adding colour to the fact that 97% of organisations are experiencing difficulties demonstrating GenAI’s business value. This productivity drag then leads to time-crunched developers being increasingly prone to human error in manual administrative processes, impacting migrations of update sets and, more worryingly, increasing the habit of overlooking critical governance, security, and quality checks.

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