PIA UDG & ALLWIN cooperation
Project purpose
Our partnership with PIA UDG started in early 2018 with a pilot project. At that time, our task was to set up a production Sitecore XP environment for a big sport brand. UDG was implementing the software, and they were almost ready to go-live. The main purpose of the project was to automate the release process without any downtime on the content delivery servers.Since then, we worked together with UDG on more than 10 projects and our high-level goal was to deliver the projects together using our best knowledge and optimize our way of collaboration while working together.
Business goals
On the first project our goal was to build a trustworthy long-term relationship with UDG.
The solution
Assign the right people to the right project. Since the start of the collaboration, we have successfully augmented UDG’s highly skilled people with ours in various technical areas.
In some cases, it was just one developer at a time, but we also had projects where we provided a team with project managers and a technical lead where parallel implementation of features was a key to deliver the project quickly.
Another technical area was supporting UDG in DevOps – such as setting up environments and CI/CD pipelines which enabled release on a more robust and automated way.
Technology stack
Sitecore development
UDG also has Sitecore developer team in-house, so the collaboration with our developers ended up diversing the team and learning from each other and sharing knowledge.
DevOps
In the DevOps role, we used on-premise technologies as well as cloud (Azure Cloud). On our first pilot project we implemented a blue-green deployment on an on-premise environment using IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, Octopus and Team Foundation Server. On the recent projects, which mostly run on Azure Cloud, we use Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud services to build and release Sitecore solutions.
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