Can Your Solution Scale?

If you've built your cloud development environment, you could argue that you have an in-house team that knows your solution inside and out; therefore, performance maintenance should be easy. But what happens when your homegrown mastermind walks out the door with that domain knowledge? And what happens when your environment needs to scale to support emerging standards and evolve to address new upgrades to complex technologies, such as Kubernetes?

Slowly propagated platform updates and poorly designed resiliency of your homegrown environment cause unacceptable downtime when issues occur. And seemingly innocuous updates can reveal security gaps and business logic data bugs. These issues slow your teams down, negatively impact developer experience and performance, and put the delivery of value at risk.

Why You Should Buy: Reliability

Oketo keeps up with maintenance and regular updates for new features and functionality to provide unparalleled speed, reliability and scalability. Okteto's first-class architecture offers several layers of redundancy and ensures consistency and enterprise-ready security with every update.

The Oketo platform is flexible, secure, and designed to offer performance at scale whether you're developing simple internal apps or complex global apps with hundreds of microservices. In contrast, homegrown solutions and the teams that support them  can quickly be overwhelmed by the requirements necessary of your product teams. Okteto ensures your development environment works with current standards so your development team can design the cloud applications that will change the world.

Free Your Engineers to Drive Value

The total cost of ownership (TCO) is often overlooked when development teams choose to build a development environment internally. Here's the rule: if your engineers spend time on a weekly basis dealing with development environment maintenance issues, then they are not focused on innovating and developing revenue-generating application features. Simply put: building an in-house development platform is resource expensive and time-consuming…and the results are often disappointing.

Why You Should Buy: Support and Expertise

Okteto provides a support team with years of cloud development and kubernetes experience by your side. Okteto draws on its expertise to solve complex problems, develop comprehensive solutions, proactively address security issues, and predict usage needs and patterns to benefit your business and meet the cross-functional needs of entire stakeholders. As a result, your team that was burdened with the responsibilities of maintaining your development environment can now focus on what they do best - developing killer applications.

Building Has Many Unforeseen Costs

Let's face it: at the end of the day, the argument for building versus buying always comes down to ROI. If you build, you bear the entire cost burden of homegrown software. That includes paying for the initial buildout, ongoing support, bug fixes, upgrades, platform migrations, and keeping up with software industry trends. These costs can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions.

Why You Should Buy: Money

Okteto has increased productivity by 200% for Replicated, reduced bugs and late-stage defects by 80% for Homa Games, and lowering scrap and rework by 50% for monday.com. But perhaps the most significant ROI for a cloud development platform environment solution is providing a positive developer experience. Removing the burden of maintaining a hosted solution allows engineers to focus on driving value for the organization.

Okteto owns all costs associated with building and maintenance while continuously gaining efficiencies across a large customer base, reducing the cost to customers. Ask yourself: what’s the value of a positive developer experience and what’s the potential risk and cost of a migration mishap, security breach, prolonged delays, and scrap and rework caused by a homegrown solution?