OutSystems Professional DevOps Engineer case studies
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The OutSystems Professional DevOps Engineer credential is one of the roles listed in the OutSystems Certification program, which the vendor describes as built to foster an ecosystem of skilled professionals and to certify individuals on knowledge and real-world project experience. The certification page lists DevOps Engineer alongside ODC Developer, O11 Developer, Tech Lead, Delivery Specialist, Platform Ops Engineer and Traditional Web Developer, within a catalogue the page counts as 19 exams split into Certification exams (which certify individuals and teams as OutSystems professionals across proficiency levels, roles and development tracks) and shorter Specialization exams focused on a specific topic or area. The OutSystems Professional DevOps Engineer case studies are 5 cases and about 4,415 words.
1Intermittent Deploy Failures on a Shared QA Environment
Northwind Logistics runs OutSystems 11 with Development, QA, Pre-Production and Production. Three squads totalling 12 developers merge into a shared main branch, and an Azure DevOps pipeline calls the LifeTime Deployment API to push the newest tag to QA on every merge.
948 words, about 5 min2Two Errors in a Saturday Deployment Plan
Meridian Bank is promoting its lending application to Pre-Production from release candidate tag RC-2024-11, created Wednesday. The application has 40 modules across Development and QA.
701 words, about 4 min3Order Submission Degrades After a Routine Release
A customer portal on OutSystems 11 is deployed on Tuesday at 14:00. By 16:00 the Submit Order screen's average response time has moved from 1.1s to 6.8s and 12% of requests exceed 30 seconds; the support desk reports spinning wheels and abandoned carts.
979 words, about 5 min4Audit Findings on a Mixed-Purpose Production Environment
A health insurer runs its member portal (about 180,000 end users) and an internal back-office application in the same OutSystems Production environment, reached through one public hostname. An internal audit reports five findings: six shared "admin" IT user accounts with no named owner; 47 IT users holding Change and Deploy on Production; end-user sessions lasting eight hours with no re-authentication; a custom back-office login screen that validates credentials against a service account whose password is stored in a site property; and back-office screens reachable from the internet because there is no IP filtering.
759 words, about 4 min5A Failed Sunday Night Release With No Usable Rollback Point
A retailer deploys a release to Production at 23:00 on Sunday. The plan covers 22 modules, two of which add nullable columns to the Order entity and rebuild one index; a Data Migration module runs a timer after deployment to backfill the new columns.
1,028 words, about 5 min