Implementing DevOps as a Service in a startup

S-Peak - Corporate Language Training is a startup that offers practical corporate language training, increasing employee productivity and company profitability. 

Even though it started as a traditional language academy, S-Peak currently has two platforms: a mobile app and an administrator portal. Its main differentiator is its ability to adapt to the needs of its clients.

Faced with the need to develop at maximum speed and at the lowest cost without losing quality, PALO IT proposed S-Peak to implement DevOps as a Service (Daas).

While building in-house capabilities may be safer in the long run, building an in-house DevOps department is costly and time-consuming. 

The purpose of PALO IT's DevOps Engineers was to provide a DevOps service based on an ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) Platform integrated with tools that guarantee:

- Continuous integration and delivery: Continuous code integration and versioning of code and artifacts
- Continuous monitoring: Continuous monitoring of your space
- Continuous Security (DevSecOps): Quality and security vulnerability scans in the code
- 24/7 Availability and Accessibility

By using PALO IT's DevOps Pipeline, we achieved:

• The configuration of infrastructure and tools in 3 days (Infrastructure As Code & Configuration Management)
• Start developing and launching functionalities immediately, in an Agile, automated, and secure way.​
• Cost savings of 25% vs. building an internal DevOps team and infrastructure
• Decrease time-to-market from 3 months to 1 week
• Code quality with 90% unit test coverage

"As a startup, I thought that using best practices and development tools would be time consuming and expensive; But thanks to the PALO IT team, in one week we were already using their DevOps Pipeline and testing new features much faster than I expected."

– Nicolas BLONDAL, Founder & Managing Director, S-Peak

S-Peak is a communication skills training and coaching business that specializes in storytelling, public speaking, and charisma. They offer lectures, workshops, and personal coaching to help entrepreneurs, speakers, and individuals deliver impactful presentations, improve their personal branding, and connect with their audiences.