Last week we were surprised to receive the award from Microsoft Best Cloud Breakthrough FY17. 
I accepted it as an Oscar from the business technology industry for the "best role" in promoting Cloud solutions. If the notion of Cloud in business technology is nebulous to you, here are some examples: Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. If you're still not clear on how these solutions can make your life easier, we can explain it to you in detail. Just ask us.
Returning to the award, after our surprise had passed, we asked ourselves what led us here, to understand what in the company's "behavior" deserves to be strengthened. This, after recognizing the merits at the individual and team level, of course.
Like any company that is in the process of maturing, we also feel the growing pains along with the rewards of independence, but that doesn't stop us from looking for (and finding) the patterns of organic business growth throughout this process.
Without considering it an exhaustive answer, our suspicion is that the ambitious yet relaxed culture that contributed to this kind of success, which closely resembles the DevOps philosophy, another passion of ours, which we will write about here. In an attempt to compress the essence of this philosophy, we dare to say that it has to do with finding a dynamic balance, a point of stability in a process of continuous change, because the challenge of the DevOps culture is to reconcile the conflicting nature of 3 different roles:
We won't tell you the details of how we apply this principle in the Koding culture now, but what we can tell you is that this philosophy is so deeply embedded in our DNA and that it leaves its mark on the way we develop, to such an extent that we believe we could pass it on. list of thanks for the recent award won.
That's it! Enough with the development analysis, we have testing processes waiting for us, so that we can stay in flow.