No One Gets Fired for Choosing Cycle

We all know the old adage, "No one gets fired for buying IBM," but this is probably the first time you've heard the same about Cycle. We're going to dive into exactly why this is true and why you can be confident in your choice to adopt Cycle for your organization.

IBM set out to make sure that those buying IBM software or services could rest assured their jobs would not be in jeopardy for a stupid investment. I mean, the last thing you want to do as an engineering leader is bring in something that is going to cost more money in the long run and take valuable time away from your developers. High on every engineering team's priorities is to increase efficiency and decrease cost, right? Well, right—no one is going to get fired for pushing more features and doing it at a cheaper cost.

Not only are Cycle users not being fired—they are being promoted! Investing in Cycle isn't just a safe choice; it's a strategic advantage. Our platform has a proven track record of increasing reliability and developer experience, reducing overall spend, and giving teams back the flexibility and simplicity they need to operate at their highest potential.

Reliability:

When your biggest competitor is Kubernetes, and majority of people are having reliability issues on that platform, you want to make sure that your platform is reliable. Most people have a good track record with K8s, until they don't. All you need to do is push a broken image and K8s rolls out a new version, killing the old pod and—wham—your service is down or broken.

Cycle takes a LowOps approach, allowing users to easily implement things like, high availability, rainbow deployments, autoscaling, etc. without needing a deep technical expertise. Our guardrails make it hard for something to go wrong, and if something does happen, it's easy to roll back.

Our federated and fully managed control plane operates on several different cloud providers, so we often joke, if Cycle is down, the world as we know it is probably the bigger worry! But don't take my word for it; hear it directly from our customers.

Cycle is there when you need it most, no more 2:00 am calls from your ops team!

Developer Experience:

Happy wife, happy life, right? Well, I subscribe to "Happy devs, happy job." As an engineering leader, enabling your team to work to their potential with as little friction as possible calls for extremely happy developers.

I've heard it time and time again — stories about developers getting bogged down because they go to deploy something and operations hasn't set them up for success, so changes take forever to be made.

With Cycle, engineers become a part of operations. They have the tools to reduce the operational friction that comes with tools like Kubernetes or ECS. Teams get an extension of their DevOps team right out of the box, taking care of things like updates and security patches automatically.

It's plain and simple—Cycle was built to break down barriers in a safe, secure way so that your team can spend more time building business value and less time in the weeds.

ROI

Here at Cycle, we like to think of two variables when it comes to cost: engineers (DevOps) or engineering (DevOps) time, and infrastructure. The time that it takes to set up, maintain, and scale your operational infrastructure would be considered your engineering or DevOps time. When looking at something like Kubernetes, the more issues or complexity you introduce into your setup will elicit a higher cost from DevOps time. Every time something breaks, someone needs to spend time fixing it. Time is money.

The average engineering salary in the US is $137,329. This is self-explanatory: the more you scale platforms like K8s, the more headcount is needed to manage and update clusters—plain and simple. Building scalable operational infrastructure without breaking the bank on new hires is the goal here at Cycle.

Empowering our users to do more with what they have today is the most substantial cost savings that most companies experience. They don't need to hire more people to manage things, and they can focus more of their time on delivering business value.

The second part of the equation is savings on infrastructure. The hyperscalers are notorious for locking users in and subjecting them to oversubscription on not only infrastructure but services needed to manage said infrastructure. Off the bat, Cycle comes preconfigured out of the box to replace services like VPN, load balancing, DNS management, etc.

As companies look to move away from the hyperscalers, Cycle makes it easy to adopt bare-metal providers or connect to on-prem infrastructure. Bare metal comes with cost savings of its own, allowing companies to acquire many more resources for a fraction of the cost—and we make it easy to manage the infrastructure no matter where the compute is coming from.

When it comes to infrastructure, Cycle works on a high-density model. Under-utilization of resources has a huge impact on cloud spend. CAST AI reports, "83% of container-related cloud costs are associated with idle resources, with 54% attributed to over provisioned cluster infrastructure and 29% to over allocated workloads." Packing more applications into less infrastructure in a safe way is a primitive of the Cycle platform. If you can get away with even 25% less, in most cases Cycle pays for itself. Find out roughly what Cycle can save you with our ROI tool.

Time for a Promotion:

When you adopt a platform that makes it easier for your developers to do what they do best in a reliable and secure way—all while saving your team money—your job security is never in question. Our annual churn rate is less than 2.5%. No one has left Cycle in recent years due to much else other than bankruptcy. When companies come to Cycle, they are here to stay.

Our goal is to set our champions up for success. When they make the decision to push Cycle into their organization, laying their reputation and job security on the line every time is something we don't take lightly. From our tried-and-true onboarding process to our best-in-class customer success team, we offer the tools and support to gain real business value from day one that lasts for years and years.

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