The pace of development is rarely determined by how fast the team writes code. It is determined by how long it takes to get an environment to run it in. When every test environment requires a ticket, an order, and a waiting period, what should have been a two-day task turns into a month.
What the waiting actually costs
The cost isn’t idle consulting hours. It’s that the team adapts its way of working to the friction: fewer but larger releases, because each release is costly. Less testing, because test environments are scarce. And a production environment that differs from the test environment, because the latter was built manually at a different time.
The last point is the most dangerous. The difference between environments is where the most critical bugs live.
What an agile approach demands from infrastructure
Being able to create an environment without having to ask anyone. Having the environments turn out the same every time. Being able to discard them when they’re not needed, so that cost follows usage.
Without that, agile methodologies become more of a scheduling exercise than a way of working — you have short sprints but a long lead time before you can actually run anything.
The difference between building the platform and using one
Many teams start out by building the platform themselves. That works, but it’s its own product effort that continues for years: upgrades, security patches, permissions, and monitoring. The alternative is to buy it as PaaS.
The question is whether the platform is your product. If it isn’t, there’s rarely a reason to own it.
What the platform should give the team
Environments created on demand without anyone else needing to approve it. Identical environments every time, so differences between test and production don’t become a source of errors.
The ability to tear down an environment when it’s no longer needed, so cost follows usage instead of just growing.
Logs and monitoring the team can access themselves, instead of having to ask the ops team for extracts.
What we take care of
Savecore PaaS provides a ready-to-use development platform with open-source tools, where the team creates environments themselves without having to submit a ticket. We handle operations, upgrades, and monitoring. Whether you run microservices, containers orchestrated with Kubernetes, or a DevSecOps chain, we will review what is included out of the box and what needs to be customized.
Everything runs in our own data centers in Sweden, which means even test data is covered by Swedish legislation — an issue that otherwise tends to surface only during an audit. If you need help migrating existing build pipelines, our consultants will do it together with your team.
Frequently asked questions about development environments on demand
Do we need to change our way of working to use a platform?
No. But most teams end up working differently once the friction disappears, simply because it becomes possible.
What happens to our containers and build pipelines?
They are normally included. We review what you are running today and what needs to be adapted before anything is moved.
Can we test it before we decide?
Yes. It is usually the fastest way to determine if the platform fits your needs.
Stop waiting for infrastructure.
A ready-to-use development platform where the team creates environments themselves, hosted in Sweden.