Our DevOps Philosophy

At MenuLogik, we believe developers should be able to focus on solving business problems and developing features, while security, infrastructure, and deployment strategy operate seamlessly in the background. Spinning up development environments and deploying updates should be as easy as clicking a button. However, to succeed in greenfield initiatives where infrastructure, automation, and developer support is often minimal, we have developed a DevOps philosophy which balances developer friction with strict cost and time constraints.

What DevOps Means To Us

DevOps as a field is broad and ever changing, and its definition equally so. Within MenuLogik, we consider DevOps to be the application of software engineering practices -- automation, version control, observability, and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) -- to computing infrastructure, networking, and security.

Smart Automation -- Knowing When (and When Not) To Automate

As a small firm that often works on early-stage projects, time allocated to DevOps must be managed judiciously. Our standard development procedures aim to be 'DRY': Don't Repeat Yourself. If a pattern is used repeatedly, generalizing and standardizing in code can prevent inconsistencies and improve reporting. This does not always apply to DevOps. Infrastructure automation can ensure consistency and save time on operations performed thousands, hundreds, or even tens of times. However, something as simple as a note on a wiki, a consistent directory structure, a procedure in a word document, or a temporary bash script can be days faster than automating an action that will be performed a handful of times.

Security-First

Managing time spent on DevOps such that it benefits project timelines requires balance and compromise, but security has little such flexibility. A manual setup procedure may save days over an equivalent automation, but an exploited vulnerability can lead to data loss, additional development expense, or irreparable compromise of sensitive IP or data. With these substantial risks in mind, we keep your security as a top priority.

DevOps in the AI era

In the modern working environment where AI tool use is accelerating the pace of development to unprecedented levels, this is especially important. A web app may tolerate some ambiguity in front-end organization. DevOps does not afford this convenience. Broken deployment patterns can lead to system-wide failures. Improperly configured access control lists, firewalls, secrets stores, and database credentials can lead to privilege escalation and malicious access of sensitive personal information and property. As such, we believe it is essential that DevOps engineers understand every change they make.

Driving Outcomes For Our Clients Through DevOps

At MenuLogik we believe that DevOps is a commitment. A commitment to security, automation where it counts, and predictable, observable behavior. Our DevOps philosophy accelerates deployments, minimizes our clients' bottom lines, and ensures systems are airtight