EPHEMERAL ENVIRONMENTS INSTALL

The answer is simple: because creating a new environment is not just about spinning out a new instance in the cloud and installing a few libraries to get it to work.

EPHEMERAL ENVIRONMENTS INSTALL

Even after the person was fully onboarded, the team still had to deal with making sure everybody was talking the same language when it came to processes and development.īut why does it take 1 week to set up and get used to one’s local environment? I asked this question, naively, thinking that I can just login into Google cloud and spin up an instance and install the necessary libraries right away. They asked to remain anonymous however, so let’s just focus on the data.īefore the introduction of the ephemeral environments, the company technical onboarding process was about 9 weeks long, made of two parts, with the first part taking about one week so the new joiners understand their environments, and the second part taking 2 months so they get used to everything and start coding at full speed (this period is relatively short, as larger organizations can take even from 4~6 months).

The company we interviewed was very nice to share with us details of their internal set-up, as well as their metrics that determined them to adopt ephemeral environments. That is a huge problem for any organization (and a gold mine for the headhunters out there), especially since there is a limited pool of quality people out there. Here is a sad statistic: 25% of developers tend to leave their newly joined company within a year, and 5% within the first 45 days because of poor onboarding processes.

How can larger companies make the technical onboarding process a lot smoother (and I don’t mean through snacks)? Today we are going to look at a 51~100 people company (still growing and hiring), a SaaS that has recently implemented ephemeral environments for their team, and we are going to focus on both the technical details that were shared with us, as well as the specific metrics that were achieved.

Ephemeral environments