Soflu software robot: an automatic tool to assist enterprises in landing Devops

In recent years , As the scale of software products continues to expand , Increasing complexity , R & D team size 、 The difficulty of management also increases exponentially . Nowadays, a mature enterprise software project team usually includes project managers 、 The product manager 、 Architects 、 front end 、 Back end 、 test 、 Operation and maintenance personnel .

The continuous specialization reflects the rapid development of the software development industry , But the R & D concept has not kept up with the development speed of the industry . For businesses , Too detailed job division brings high R & D costs , Under the traditional R & D mode , The cost of communication and collaboration among team members has also become higher , Software development iteration efficiency does not increase but decreases .

For each developer in the R & D team , The complicated R & D process leads to a lack of understanding between departments and roles , The rapid iteration pressure from the company's operational decisions and the needs of market users has led to the continuous shortening of the project R & D cycle , Cause software industry 996 Prevalence , Overtime is serious .

Industry solutions

In order to solve the problem of enterprise software R & D efficiency , Some excellent engineers in the industry began to devote themselves to the R & D process 、 Team structure 、 Design agile R & D model in terms of thinking mode . In recent years , Thanks to the vigorous development of container technology and micro Service Architecture , Based on agile model , Development and operation and maintenance work together DevOps The pattern came into being .

 DevOps yes Development and Operations A combination of two words , It's the integration of development, operation and maintenance , Specifically, it means in IT During the development and delivery of software and related services , Will be applied to the needs of 、 Development 、 test 、 Deploy and operate together , Based on the collaboration of the whole organization and optimization of application architecture , To achieve agile development 、 Seamless integration of continuous delivery and application operations . Through automated processes , Make software build 、 test 、 Faster delivery 、 Frequent and reliable .

The characteristic of this development model is that each iteration of the product can be , Or every online defect repaired is immediately deployed to the production environment , thus , Developers can quickly get feedback from users and respond quickly .

at present , There have been a number of technology driven Internet companies at home and abroad that have developed their own advanced technology DevOps Experience and tools are packaged into products or services to market , Low code formed / No code platform 、 One stop cloud native DevOps Service platform and other industry solutions , Help enterprises realize cost reduction and efficiency increase in the process of software research and development .

Low code platform

Domestic low code platforms have sprung up in the past two years , In addition to the platform that should be built under the Alibaba cloud ecosystem , Most low code platforms are launched by entrepreneurial companies that have just emerged in recent years . Low code development platforms utilize a large number of prefabricated components , Provide visual methods to help enterprise customers build applications , This simplifies the development process , Significantly reduce the burden on developers to build applications , Lower the development threshold , So as to help enterprises reduce R & D costs , The purpose of improving R & D efficiency .

However , The defects of low code platform are also obvious . One side , The preset components make the user's business process can only change with the components , Cause technical coupling , The function and variety of components limit the development and innovation of applications . On the other hand , At present, most low code platforms on the market provide online services in the form of public cloud , The user business code needs to bear the risk of binding with the platform , This makes the subsequent migration of enterprise business code more difficult .

Cloud native service platform

It is different from the low code platform in realizing cost reduction and efficiency increase by simplifying the coding link in the software development process , The one-stop cloud native service platform provider is based on BAT、 Huawei and other domestic leading Internet manufacturers are dominant , By providing information based on Kubernetes And other cloud native technology infrastructure platform services and off the shelf DevOps Tool chain , To help enterprise users, they only need to focus on their own business code development , So as to realize... Without perception DevOps R & D process , And based on the strong network infrastructure of large Internet manufacturers, it provides customers with multi activity in different places 、 High concurrency network services .

However, this type of cloud service is not suitable for all enterprise users , On the one hand, traditional enterprises IT Architecture migration to the cloud needs to pay the cost of technology stack migration , For many enterprises whose business volume is not so exaggerated, they do not need so high concurrency . On the other hand , For some financial 、 For industries with sensitive business data such as government and enterprises , The public cloud also has certain security risks .

SoFlu Software robot —— DevOps Automated development tools

Different from the above platforms , SoFlu Software robot as an assistant development tool , From the back end 、 front end 、 Testing, operation and maintenance and other links help the enterprise R & D team to achieve success DevOps, Achieve automated development , For business, we mainly adopt Java For the technology stack team , High cost performance .

SoFlu The software robot was launched in 2020 year 11 month , Through the back-end fully automatic development platform , First to achieve Java Fully automated back-end development . Users only need to drag and drop components in the visual interface , The platform can automatically generate microservice packaging files that have been verified by practice , And can be directly deployed to the server , Greatly reduce the threshold of microservice deployment and operation , This saves a lot of time and manpower . The properties of the tool also mean that the user can SoFlu The generated code of the software robot is deployed on any platform .

After product launch , In order to meet the needs of software automation development more comprehensively ,SoFlu The software robot has recently launched a front-end fully automatic development platform , Provide visual development mode , Through rich page controls and simplification of back-end interface joint debugging , Greatly improve the efficiency of front-end development .

In addition to providing front-end and back-end automated development tools for developers ,SoFlu The software robot has also launched a fully automatic test platform and a fully automatic operation and maintenance platform , Provide enterprise R & D teams with automated tools covering the whole process of software R & D , Reduce cost and increase efficiency .

Since its launch , SoFlu Software robots have accumulated a large number of practical cases in the industry , Won a good reputation . Take PetroChina for example .

Previously, PetroChina in Tianjin needed to build a large e-commerce platform , Due to the lack of software development talents , The platform was initially built by an outsourcing company , near 20 People have been developing it for nearly a year , But after the project went online, I encountered the problem of system crash . stay SoFlu With the help of software robot , PetroChina only invested 9 Small teams of people , cost 45 Tianyou has completed the reconstruction of the e-commerce platform with high quality , Achieve second kill 、 Assemble 、 Bargaining and other complete functions , There have been no problems since the launch .

Because automatic development has a significant effect on reducing cost and increasing efficiency of enterprise R & D ,SoFlu Software robots are very popular in the market . according to the understanding of , So far , SoFlu Software robots have been developed to include medical 、 Finance 、 manufacture 、 Hundreds of institutions in eight industries including retail have provided technical services , Used by thousands of professionals .

Conclusion

Technological innovation and DevOps The development of concept leads the transformation of software industry , More automation will be the future trend of the industry .SoFlu Chendingwei, chief designer of software robot and President of feisuan Yunzhi, said ,“ The software industry is bound to develop intelligently in the future , And these technologies will no longer be cold , Technology will give them temperature , And we can make more people have the ability to use these technologies quickly .”

SoFlu  The emergence of software robots has also been recognized by domestic experts . Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, said ,“SoFlu The value of software robots is through standardization 、 Automated processes , Reduce the cost from development 、 Test the threshold of operation and maintenance , Implement the agile management system , Help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency , Achieve the goal of improving the innovation speed of the software industry .”