DEVOPS HEALTH CHECK: OPTIMIZE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE PERFOMANCE

What Our Infrastructure Assessment Covers

A customised DevOps health check isn’t just about running automated scans and generating reports. We actually spend time understanding how your team works and where the friction points are. Some companies have beautiful CI/CD pipelines that look great in demonstrations but fail randomly in production because edge cases weren’t handled properly.

The assessment generally commences with your existing pain points as described during the intake meeting. Perhaps you are able to deliver deployments fine under normal hours, but when someone tries to fix something by deploying a fix at 12:00 am, the deployment fails. Perhaps your monitoring provides alerts on everything, and your developer team has developed the habit of ignoring any alerts. Perhaps you are spending far too much on cloud infrastructure because your auto-scaling functionality is not configured properly; you do not want to allow those extra billable hours to continue accruing while you figure out the problem!

We examine the entire technology stack during our focused DevOps health check. Build processes, automated testing, deployment strategies, monitoring setup, security implementations – everything gets reviewed. But we also pay attention to the human side of the equation. How do your developers and operations people collaborate? Are they constantly waiting for each other, or do they have smooth handoffs?

The assessment isn’t about finding fault with existing work. Most teams build systems that solve immediate problems with available resources. Instead, we look for opportunities where targeted improvements can have outsized impact. Sometimes reorganizing a few build steps cuts total pipeline time in half. Other times, adjusting monitoring thresholds eliminates alert fatigue and helps teams focus on real issues.

Specialized Approaches for Different Environments

Every organization has unique requirements based on their technology choices, team structure, and business constraints. We adapt our assessment methodology accordingly. For companies using Microsoft technologies extensively, we offer an Azure DevOps health check that focuses specifically on optimizing Azure-based tools and workflows.

Azure environments have particular optimization opportunities that don’t apply to other platforms. Azure DevOps integrates well with other Microsoft services, but only when configured properly. We’ve seen organizations struggle with Azure pipelines that should complete in minutes but take hours because of suboptimal agent configuration or inefficient task ordering.

The evaluation covers practical concerns that affect daily operations. Can your infrastructure handle unexpected traffic spikes without degrading performance? How quickly can you deploy critical bug fixes when customers are affected? What happens when key systems fail during peak business hours? These questions directly impact customer satisfaction and revenue.

We will also review your current devops services and solutions to identify what is working and what may be adding unnecessary complexity. Sometimes, teams will adopt new tools with the expectation that it will rectify an existing problem. What they may end up doing is adding more moving parts to their DevOps structure, while failing to rectify existing pain points. An assessment of your deployment process will help clarify elements of your existing tooling that are helpful, along with identifying sources of technological complexity that do not add proportional or equal value.

Converting Analysis Into Practical Improvements

Assessment reports that identify problems without explaining how to fix them aren’t particularly useful. Our DevOps health check report prioritizes recommendations based on potential impact and implementation difficulty. We’ve learned that most teams can handle 2-3 significant changes simultaneously without disrupting ongoing work.

Each recommendation includes specific implementation steps, realistic timelines, and expected results. If we suggest implementing infrastructure as code, we explain which tools make sense for your environment, how to structure the migration, and what benefits you’ll see at each phase. This detail comes from actually implementing these changes in various environments, not just theoretical knowledge.

Every assessment concludes with a strategy session where we review findings together. These discussions often reveal additional context that influences our recommendations. Maybe you’re planning a major platform migration next year, which affects which improvements make sense to implement now versus later. Or budget constraints might require phasing improvements over several quarters.

The most successful implementations happen when teams understand not just what to change, but why those changes matter for business outcomes. Faster deployment pipelines aren’t just technical improvements – they enable quicker response to customer needs and faster resolution of production issues. Better monitoring doesn’t just reduce alerts – it helps teams identify and fix problems before customers notice them.

Why Choose AppRecode for Your Assessment

We’ve engaged with organizations ranging from tiny start-ups to massive companies, all with different challenges and limitations. Our experience enables us to see patterns and provide recommendations that may not be immediately apparent to you when you’re aligned with one environment.

One of the things we’ve learned is that for any DevOps initiative to be successful requires a heavy people and process component and not simply a technology one. You can have a fully realized automation stack – but it doesn’t make any difference if people do not trust the automation or know how to leverage it effectively. That’s why our assessments include both organizational and technical factors. 

We also recognize that every organization has limitations – budget environment, skills and gap skills, and legacy systems that cannot be replaced. The recommendations we provide recognize this environment, and regardless of how to might speak about re-inventing the wheel, we will work within the realities rather than assuming that you can build an entirely new environment. Sometimes the best action is optimally using what you have instead of implementing a brand new environment.