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Overview

With the recent acceleration in Digital Transformation, organizations need greater agility and hybrid cloud solutions to increase the speed of innovation at a predictable cost. Effective DevOps practices that focus on people, process and technology are a key to Cloud adoption and enablement.

DevOps Practice Areas

A guide to Arctiq practice areas. Each section includes information specific to each practice area including but not limited to - relevant products, key focus areas, key partners, outbound links to repeatable offerings.

Developer Experience

The Developer Experience (DevEx) practice area is dedicated to enhancing the lives of developers by streamlining their workflows and maximizing their productivity. We understand that developers thrive in an environment where they can focus on coding and innovation rather than dealing with cumbersome processes and tools. Our team works closely with development teams to identify pain points and implement solutions that simplify their daily tasks.

Key Focus Areas

Self-Serve Automated Deployments

We enable developers to deploy their applications easily and independently through the implementation of automated deployment pipelines. This reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, and accelerates the time to market.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

We facilitate the adoption of CI/CD practices to automate the software build, test, and deployment processes. By integrating tools and establishing efficient pipelines, we enable developers to deliver high-quality software at a rapid pace.

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

We optimize the developer's coding experience by providing them with powerful IDEs and tailored development environments. These environments are equipped with the necessary tools, plugins, and configurations, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient code development

DevEx Case Studies

Application Security

The Application Security practice area is dedicated to safeguarding applications from vulnerabilities and ensuring the protection of sensitive data. We employ a comprehensive approach that encompasses code analysis, rigorous testing methodologies, and robust authorization and secret management practices. Our main priority is to operationalize application security through the integration of technologies like SAST, SCA, & DAST into the SDLC and the agile processes of the organization. The beauty of a successful application security program is the reduction of vulnerabilities within the application. We know best what an organization will face, once an AppSec tool will be implemented. We can help prepare for the Day 2 and ensure a successful reduction of the security vulnerability footprint.

Key Focus Areas

Code Analysis

We utilize advanced code analysis techniques like SAST, SCA, & DAST to identify potential security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Through static and dynamic analysis, we assist in uncovering coding flaws and help developers address them effectively.

Testing and Vulnerability Scanning

We conduct rigorous testing, including penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities within applications. By leveraging industry-leading tools, such as Github Advanced Security, Snyk, and Hashicorp Vault/Boundary, we ensure comprehensive security coverage.

Open-source Vulnerability Scanning & Compliance Check

We assist organizations in ensuring that open-source vulnerabilities are remediated and libraries used are always up to date. From a licensing compliance perspective, we help organizations implement tools to ensure that they are only using the open source libraries that can be used in the products they are developed based on the purpose of the technology and the industry it is playing in.

AppSec Case Studies

Monitoring & Observability

The Monitoring & Observability practice area focuses on providing organizations with comprehensive insights into their application performance, availability, and overall health. We enable real-time monitoring, proactive alerting, and robust visualization of critical metrics to facilitate data-driven decision-making.

Key Focus Areas

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

We deploy cutting-edge APM tools, such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana, to monitor the performance of applications. This includes tracking response times, resource utilization, error rates, and other crucial metrics.

Infrastructure Monitoring

We implement monitoring solutions that cover the entire infrastructure stack, including on-prem servers, kubernetes clusters, networks, databases, and cloud services. This enables organizations to proactively detect and address performance bottlenecks, capacity issues, and potential failures.

Observability and Log Management

We help organizations gain deep insights into their applications' internal workings by implementing observability practices and leveraging log management platforms. This allows for efficient troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis.

Cloud Enablement

We help organizations maximize their benefit of the monitoring and observability services offered by their cloud providers and integrate them with their on-premise systems.

Team enablement

We help internal teams to adopt good observability practices by creating tooling (pipelines, Observability as Code, etc.) and documentation that makes onboarding easier. This shifting left usually takes the form of standard observability as code configurations that can be used by teams in minutes and can be personalized down the line.

APM migration

We help organizations gain deep insights into their applications' internal workings by implementing observability practices and leveraging log management platforms. This allows for efficient troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis.

SRE practices

We help organizations define and configure SLIs and SLOs based on golden metrics and company-specific metrics. Using error budgets and burn rates, we help them set up effective alerting and response mechanisms. We also integrate observability in the integration pipelines to detect defects before they are deployed, ensuring greater software reliability.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

We deploy cutting-edge APM tools, such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana, to monitor the performance of applications. This includes tracking response times, resource utilization, error rates, and other crucial metrics.

Infrastructure Monitoring

We implement monitoring solutions that cover the entire infrastructure stack, including on-prem servers, kubernetes clusters, networks, databases, and cloud services. This enables organizations to proactively detect and address performance bottlenecks, capacity issues, and potential failures.

Observability and Log Management

We help organizations gain deep insights into their applications' internal workings by implementing observability practices and leveraging log management platforms. This allows for efficient troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis.

Application Modernization (AppMod)

The Application Modernization (AppMod) practice area focuses on upgrading or transforming applications to leverage modern technologies and architectures. We help organizations modernize their software systems, enabling them to achieve greater scalability, agility, and efficiency.

Key Focus Areas

Cloud Migrations

We guide organizations migrating their applications to cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging services like Anthos, Kubernetes (K8s), and Redhat Openshift. We promote and educate the usage of cloud native technology to maximize the benefits for seamless scalability, improved observability and availability, security, and cost optimization.

Microservices and Containerization

We guide organizations in breaking down monolithic applications into microservices architecture and adopting containerization technologies. This approach enables enhanced flexibility, scalability, and ease of deployment and management.

DevOps and Automation

We promote the adoption of DevOps principles and practices to streamline the application modernization process. This includes implementing automated build pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Git and Terraform, and leveraging automation tools like GitHub Actions and Hashicorp Consul/Vault/Terraform/Ansible.

AppMOD Case Studies

API Management

The API Management practice area is focused on implementing tools and processes to securely and efficiently manage APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). We enable organizations to control, monitor, govern and monetize their APIs, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Key Focus Areas

Developer Portal

We build out OpenAPI specifications for API endpoints and expose it via a developer portal.

API Security

We provide security best practices on applying best practice security policies to mitigate DDoS attacks, threat detection such as SQL injection, allow-/block-lists starting at the external ingress down to the API backend.

Rate Limiting and Throttling

We assist organizations in implementing rate limiting and throttling strategies to control API usage and protect against abuse or excessive traffic. This helps maintain optimal performance and prevents unauthorized access.

Authentication and Authorization

We implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms for APIs, ensuring secure access control and user identity management. This includes utilizing industry-leading tools like Apigee to enforce authentication protocols and manage API permissions.

Analytics and Reporting

We enable organizations to gain valuable insights into API usage, performance, and trends through comprehensive analytics and reporting capabilities. This facilitates data-driven decision-making, optimization of API design, and identification of areas for improvement.

API Management Case Studies

Outcomes

Services

Continuous Verification
Continuous Deployment
Embedded governance
and security fitness
Secure Software Supply Chain
Enhanced Change Management
On-Demand Environments - GitOps
CI/CD Services
Gating & Delta Thresholds
Compliance Services
QA Automation
ITSM Automation
Cloud Migration/Tech Transformation
Documentation & Training
Infrastructure Orchestration

Continuous Verification

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Continuous Deployment

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Embedded governance and security fitness

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Secure Software Supply Chain

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Enhanced Change Management

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On-Demand Environments - GitOps

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Every engagement starts with a DevOps & Cloud (Current Vs Future State) Assessment.

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Continuous Integration

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Sustaining Continuous Improvement - Implicit Approval

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