With intentional processes and Salesforce testing tools, community and regional banks can see huge returns, even with small DevOps teams.
Why It Matters: Customers have the same expectations of regional banks compared to larger institutions. The challenge becomes how to provide an intuitive and functional IT environment with limited resources.
- The financial industry has some of the most stringent data regulations while also being among the most highly targeted by data security threats.
- Reducing manual DevOps processes eliminates costly mistakes while expediting release cycles.
Here are six ways regional banks can drastically increase their Salesforce DevOps output:
1. Automated Testing Tools Free Up Developers
When it comes to expanding the capacity of your team members, automation is your best friend. Time-consuming, manual tasks are not only prone to errors, but they also occupy your team’s time when they could be addressing more pressing concerns.
Salesforce testing tools like static code analysis and CI/CD tools expedite monotonous reviews so nothing slips between the cracks.
Speeding up these processes increases release velocity and your team’s potential for productivity.
Static code analysis is an essential tool that provides complete visibility into code health from the moment it’s written all the way to deployment.
2. Implement Source Code Management
The pandemic put remote work on the fast track. This continues to have repercussions as we move further into 2023. Geographically disparate teams need to be able to communicate and collaborate, which has pushed cloud computing to the forefront of IT infrastructures.
Incorporating cloud-based release management tools and testing infrastructure are crucial aspects of Salesforce DevOps for many companies, which will continue to grow in importance.
Organizations need to continually improve their release processes to deliver high-quality software updates and features to their users more quickly and efficiently. Cloud computing and dedicated DevOps tools are essential for accomplishing this.
3. Containerization Technology
Containerization refers to the practice of running applications in isolated, self-contained environments called containers. Each container provides a complete runtime environment, including the application code, dependencies, and configuration files, but does not include the underlying operating system.
Containerization technology provides a standardized environment for deploying and testing software, which helps release managers identify issues earlier in the release process.
These capabilities benefit the automated release management process by enabling faster deployments, increased scalability, and improved compatibility. Containerization is going to be increasingly utilized in automated release management in 2023.
4. Improved Automation
Automated tools that enable faster and more secure release management practices will continue to be optimized throughout the year. Security patches, increased reliance on artificial intelligence, and cloud-based functionalities are all going to be a focus for application developers.
Organizations can further enhance the automation capabilities of their release management tools by incorporating new technologies such as AI and cloud computing.
Automated release management solutions will continue to evolve towards providing end-to-end automation of the entire release process, from code development to deployment. This will involve integrating with other tools and processes, such as static code analysis, continuous integration and continuous development or CI/CD, and more.
5. Salesforce Secure Coding Guidelines
You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know it exists. Failing to have an updated view of the inner workings of your Salesforce DevOps pipeline has the potential to lead to costly outages. Salesforce security posture management toolsempower admins to maintain visibility of essential functions like team member permissions settings and compliance factors.
Automated checks of Salesforce profile and permissions settings eliminate the threat of overexposed data, making companies much less likely to experience data exposures, corruptions, and deletions.
Employees should only have access to the data they need to accomplish their tasks. Anything beyond that opens up data sets to an increased possibility of costly accidents.
6. Microservice Architecture
Microservice architecture breaks down a complex application into smaller, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently of one another. Each service is responsible for a specific business function and communicates with other services through APIs.
Automated release management in a microservice architecture manages the deployment of individual services, as well as the orchestration of multiple services, to create a complete application.
This approach focuses more on specific tasks, which allows developers to work on individual services without impacting other parts of the application. This makes it easier to incorporate changes and add new features without disrupting the entire application.
Next Step…
Now that you know what to expect from automated release management this year, let’s look into how to incorporate these capabilities into your Salesforce DevOps pipeline.
Check out our blog, “10 Tips for DevOps Implementation for Salesforce,” to learn more.