Founder of Elastic Byte here. Happy to field any questions or feedback.
Nice! That's exactly the same idea I had some time ago. Are you guys hiring?
Send me an e-mail (in profile).
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#12Founder of Elastic Byte here. Happy to field any questions or feedback.
So, DevOps is as much about company culture, as tools / process.
How does DevOps as a Service plan on changing company culture?
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#13The wrapping of your tagline (We build...) could use some work. Sometimes the words "Term" and "Contract" will be on the second line and sometimes on the third, it's super hard to read.
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#14You're not really showing HN anything. Only one of your links at top of page work.
Reads simply as a contractor looking for clients and spamming HN.
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#15From my understanding of DevOps, it's one of those things that is impossibly difficult to outsource, just like Product Management. On surface the output is merely specifications, and product sketches but there are plenty of things including foreseeing execution, customer development, and measurement that needs to be covered to add real value. Can you really implement processes, see response of team towards them, enfo…
I think you bring up some really good points. I think that DevOps is very team-centric and to some extent cross-team centric and removing that can make for an uneven environment.
I do think there are parts of it you can outsource such as first line on-call and I also think that DevOps as a service has a use case in a brand new start who maybe hasn't had time or needed to hire any DevOps personnel. But as a longer term play I think it runs contra to some of the ideas of DevOps.
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#16Founder of Elastic Byte here. Happy to field any questions or feedback.
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#17Devops is not a role or team. It is a culture.
You can't outsource that.
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#18Founder of Elastic Byte here. Happy to field any questions or feedback.
I would guess a fair amount of your potential sales would be from organizations that want to move things to the cloud.
You might consider adding some information for potential clients looking for things like "AWS migration" or "Moving CI to the Cloud", etc.
That may also be at odds with your plans. That sort of activity usually has a big hump of hours up front that scales down when a migration is done. Your biggest plan is one person for a week out of a month.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not "as a service", it's "as a contractor"
I actually intentionally structured and publically list pricing which is against what nearly every other consulting or enterprise sales company does. Pricing is uniform across all clients, and each client belongs to a given plan. I'd say our model fits a service more than traditional consulting.
On one hand I think price transparency is nice to see.
But on the other hand this really is a consulting business, they are tough to run, and there might be something important to learn from why consultants do not publicly list prices. The difference between feast or famine might be making sure to capitalize on one fat client in a quarter or even year.
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