Lagos as it stands to be the center of excellence is not only developing and establishing itself into being a huge cornerstone of Africa’s tech ecosystem but also it has made a name for itself being an active metropolis of the Nation. It has over 100 tech hubs and startups within it, and this great result shows the high level of innovation and growth happening in Lagos and cutting across the continent. The steady and rapid increase in the contribution made to the nation’s GDP by this city’s tech sector cannot be overemphasized and this clearly shows the distinct roles it’s playing towards ensuring the growth and building up of technology in Africa towards future prospects.
The great transformation seen happening is largely as a result of the use of advanced DevOps practices which keeps on offering a strategic advantage to enable efficiency in project delivery.
A study by the Lagos Tech forum in the year 2020 vividly shows that so many projects that are utilizing and leveraging strongly on DevOps strategies tend to give feedback around 70% increment in the deployment rate and an account for the reduction of failure rate being 60% which further shows the importance and the great impact of these DevOps practices on operational efficiency.
This article is aimed at exploring the importance and very crucial roles of advanced DevOps practices and strategies in bringing about an effective project delivery within the landscape of Lagos vibrant’s tech and also sharing some insights stated by leading experts and professionals as well as authoritative bodies in the country. In light of this, we will get to show you how tech experts in Lagos get their work elevated with the use of DevOps bringing about a wide range of positivity beyond the boundaries and problems around innovation.
DevOps is a unique blend of both development (Dev) and operations(Ops) practices, which arrays a type of culture with sets of processes that further bring about the togetherness and collaboration of the development and operations team to complete and create a good software development. It aims at bringing about a rapid growth and result to shorten and reduce development processes, enhancing a means of continuous delivery, and ensure a very high level of reliability and efficiency is achieved. In the tech world, making a progression and advancement from traditional software development and its deployment methods, DevOps has come to a point whereby it has become synonymous with scalability, effectiveness, agility and it has helped in the improvements around the area of collaboration.
In the city of Lagos, the induction and acceptability of DevOps is increasingly gaining a high level of momentum among various tech hubs and startups, this is further showing forth a wider range of trend towards great delivery practices and effective innovative project management. The Lagos Software Development Association did a report in the year 2021 and in that report, they stated that 65% of tech organizations and companies in Lagos have now advanced into adopting some form of DevOps practices into their activities and operations. This advancement has effectively caused an improvement in projects results and success rates, with a hand-to-hand 45% decrease in time-to-market for newly made software development and a decrease in the problems of encountering critical bugs which has been analyzed at 40%.
All these results and analysis do not only show the increase in the adoption of DevOps in Lagos tech scene but it further shows the important roles it has done in enforcing projects’ great results and outcomes as well as its notable operational effectiveness. Tech professionals in Lagos are not just keeping track of meeting global standards but they are also strategically putting themselves in positions at the forefront of Africa’s tech innovation movement by adopting largely these DevOps practices.
In Lagos, project delivery seems to face so many challenges, notably issues around scalability and collaboration hassles.
The issue of scalability gets to start as startups tend to grow rapidly, and most times outnumber their already available resources, development practices and infrastructures. On the other hand we have collaboration issues, and this often comes as a result of diverse culture and the distributed nature of the teams lead to a high rate of lack of communication gaps and also a great level of inefficiencies.
A study done by Tech Lagos in the year 2022 really made mention of all these challenges. In the reports it was stated that 55% of tech startups in regions within Lagos struggle a lot with handling their software advancement processes to match up with loads of increment in demand while 60% also get to have complexities and problems around collaboration between these two different teams which are the development and the operations teams. All these findings further show the great importance and need for embracing practices that enhance effectiveness, good means of communication, and foster notable and workable growth and development strategies within Lagos tech ecosystem.
In the tech ecosystem of Lagos, DevOps practices have proven to be a means of enhancing and transforming operational effectiveness and project delivery. The CTO of a leading and well known Fintech startup incubated at CcHUB, Oluchi Logan states that ” This isn’t just a methodology, DevOps is a culture shift that enables and urges teams to deliver rapidly and more effectively making them very reliable,” Her emphasis is further buttressed by Tolu Komolafe, Andela’s Director of Engineering which also said that “Enhancing the use of DevOps has rapidly reduced our deployment times and has also helped in bringing about a more collaborative Community.”
A very notable and vivid case is that of Paystack, A payment platform situated in Lagos. After the use of DevOps strategies and practices they have further reported that there has been a 50% reduction in their deployment time and also a 40% decrease in their system downtime. Their success story shows the great importance of DevOps in bringing about operational capabilities and making sure that the sense of reliability on digital services is being created, setting a high standard for other startups and various tech hubs in Lagos so they can follow and make for an advanced updates tech ecosystem.
In order to achieve major success around the Lagos tech scene, embracing the use of advanced DevOps practices is very important and cannot be overemphasized. Here are some keys to look into:
Continual receiving of Feedback loops: This fosters and makes sure there is a real-time watching out and speedy response to problems.
Microservices building and architecture: This promotes the need of creating and developing a flexible, understandable and effective application.
Containerization: This ensures the widespread of active operations across different environments and communities.
A DevOps specialist in Lagos, by the name Adeola Ojo, laid strong emphasis which states that “imbibing practices such as containerization and microservices do not only bring about different streams for deployment but it also serves as a catalyst and cause for a significantly rapid growth in innovation. Ensuring customers’ great satisfaction and also maintaining a high level of operational standards can be done with the use of continuous feedback so they are in this case very important.”
A leap towards achieving a distinct, resilient and customer-oriented development and operations, also creating a thread mark and an evolution point for tech companies in Lagos can be achieved through these practices.
For this to be a reality, Lagos tech experts has to look for a means for DevOps to be embraced and create a structural and strategic approach that can bring about the integration processes into their workflows and these include:
Give intense assessments to your current environment: Check out for the gaps and lags in your current advancements and operational practices that DevOps can be a solution to.
Creating a means of literacy: Educating stakeholders around the importance and effectiveness of DevOps to gain their support.
No harm in starting small: You can start by using and carrying out DevOps practices in small scale and manageable platforms and projects to show forth their effectiveness and productivity.
Investment in Training: Advance the skills of your team through the availability of DevOps courses to them with the issuance of certificates that could help for solidification. Several resources are being offered in Lagos and they include workshops hosted and owned by CcHUB and Andela, the provision of online courses by globally recognized platforms with the aim that the needs of Nigerian tech professionals and experts would be met.
Effective use of collaborative tools: The leveraging of tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and also Docker can be seen as an aid to help enhance the consistency in Delivery, continuous integration and also efficiency in collaboration.
Build and Develop a DevOps culture: Enhance the need of open communication, togetherness, collaboration and also the willingness in accepting and embracing new strategies among your team.
Interact with the community: Give into participation in local DevOps hangouts, meetups, forums and also conferences that could create room for the exchange of ideas and best practices beyond just coming to listen to the host speak. We have places like the Nigerian DevOps community and also TechPoint Africa, these are great places to start from.
A DevOps engineer in Lagos, Adebayo Akinfenwa urges that “community interaction and giving in to continuous learning is key. The scene of Lagos tech is vibrant, and there’s a whole wealth of knowledge that can be harnessed from it through workshops and meetups.”
We can help but admit that inclusion of DevOps in Lagos has marked a major and important leap towards the ensuring of a more effective and innovative project delivery within the boundaries of its tech ecosystem. With these advanced practices being put in place, tech professionals and experts in Lagos can further enhance the advancement around the collaboration, commitment, surge, speed and also its quality that would help build up Lagos city’s stature as a major tech hub in Africa. This is a great call to duty for tech professionals to lay hold and also be frontrunners in the adoption of DevOps in utilizing and working with local resources and good community networks. This measure would not only increase their projects but it would also add to the broadening and wider range of growth and resilience for the tech landscape of Lagos.
Hilary Utuke is the CEO of Korlod Works, a top Digital Marketing firm in Lagos. He’s authored four books including “Digital Strategies for Online Brand Visibility” and created Digital Luminary Pro (TM), a model helping Nigerian Thought Leaders connect with Millenials and GenZ audiences.
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