Application Of Devops For E-Commerce Website

Abstract

In recent years, a big requirement for software developers has been the ability to deploy new application features fast, frequently and in short release cycle time. This requirement, however, is most relevant to an e-commerce. An e-commerce website refers to a web application that focuses on selling products or services over the internet, and as a part of the internet it has to be updated and improved in a manner which does not hinder its functioning and is achievable in an efficient and timely manner. The DevOps approach ensures this. DevOps (Development Operations) is a 3rd generation Software Development philosophy which creates a collaboration between IT Operations and Software Development. This results in a decrease in the amount of time required to develop and deploy any application as it employs the feature of continuous development. It uses the agile methodology as its basis. AGILE methodology is a practice that promotes continuous iteration of development and testing throughout the software development lifecycle of the project. Both development and testing activities are concurrent unlike the Waterfall model. Thus, DevOps is emerging as a new age technology crucial for a faster and more efficient website development. This paper focuses on the need of DevOps for the development of e-commerce website, its requirements and the benefits of using the DevOps in e-commerce website development.