What is Axebow?

Axebow is a new Platform Engineering as a Service solution that automates infrastructure management and deployment processes in a cloud-agnostic and zero-knowledge way.

Axebow Platform

1. Why is Platform Engineering needed?

Cloud global adoption continues gaining traction. Despite the cloud evolution, many enterprises are still operating infrastructure like traditional services, which has introduced new challenges for cloud-native adoption.

Businesses need to respond to more and more changes in strategy due to the technological trends cloud native software imposes. But, pivoting to a new cloud era is a challenging task because businesses have an IT department whose capacity, in terms of number of people and knowledge, is nearly constant. This creates a gap between what the business needs and what the IT team can actually deliver.

This gap is caused by what we identify as the the main challenges for when moving to cloud:

  • Skills gap: Cloud Management is not easy & There are too many tools

    Cloud-native technologies require developers, operations teams, and IT staff to learn new skills.

    The complexity of the toolchain used in DevOps is a serious challenge. The DevOps ecosystem offers a plethora of tools and technologies, each serving a specific purpose. This diversity leads to fragmented and difficult-to-manage and configure cloud environments.

  • Unbalanced teams

    Unfortunately, the number of developers and the number of devops is not balanced; for every 100 developers there may be 10 DevOps or operators in the best-case scenario.

    This means that the DevOps team does not have the capacity to meet all the demand that is generated, understanding that their priority is production, pre-production and, ultimately, development environments, which produces bottlenecks in the software delivery process and greatly reduces the speed of software delivery.

  • Hiring qualified people

    The skills needed to pivot to the cloud make it difficult to hire qualified people.

  • Cost Governance

    Organizations need to carefully plan their cloud usage to optimize costs and avoid unexpected expenses.

2. Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is an emerging technology approach that can accelerate the delivery of applications and the pace at which they produce business value.

Platform engineering improves developer experience and productivity by providing self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations.

Gartner thinks it is trending because it promises to optimize the developer experience and accelerate product teams' delivery of customer value.

Platform engineering goal is to modernize enterprise software delivery, based on creating an engineering platform, which is designed to support the needs of software developers and the DevOps by providing common, reusable tools and capabilities, and interfacing to complex infrastructure.

2.1. Benefits

  • Platform Engineering optimizes the developer experience and accelerates delivery of business value.

  • It reduces cognitive load through the improvement of the developer experience and productivity.

  • Developers' abilities to independently run, manage and develop their applications is improved, while ensuring reliability and security.

  • Key talent retention is also improved.

3. How does Axebow address the cloud challenges?

Axebow is a self-service platform that empowers developers to access the tools and resources they need without relying on other teams or waiting for approvals. By streamlining processes and automating tasks.

Axebow helps organizations deliver software faster, improve scalability and resilience, and improves collaboration among teams.

We believe Axebow is a true Platform Engineering because Axebow it focuses on enabling developer autonomy. That doesn’t mean simply making developers do everything that DevOps engineers did in the past.

Axebow aims to enable DevOps to evolve from being a team that does the delivery work for developers (most organizations call this a DevOps team) to a team that enables the delivery work for the developers that empower the developers and help them be more effective without having to hand tasks off.