A performance focussed engineering team needs delivery pipeline automation, flexible scaling and performance tuning capabilities, redundancy and recovery automation and monitoring. With the developments in the DevOps toolset, driven by platforms like Kubernetes and TerraForm, allow an infrastructure as code approach to all of these topics.

The proper infrastructure setup and automation, combined with the right processes and procedures, can make the difference between a slow and strategically detached engineering team and an engineering team that continously delivers value adding functionality and capability improvements to the organisation.