How Spryker Code Upgrader Keeps Your Platform Up-to-date

In today's fast-paced digital landscape – characterized by frequent release cycles and continuous deployment – traditional manual update processes have become time-consuming and unsustainable. In addition, the rise in cybersecurity threats has heightened the need for timely patch management.

As businesses focus on efficiency, largely in response to economic pressures such as declining IT spend, organizations are striving to balance innovation with stability.

This makes the need for fast, accurate upgrade processes more critical than ever. Without them, businesses risk accumulating technical debt, which can stifle growth and increase costs.

Spryker Code Upgrader is a cutting-edge tool designed to streamline platform maintenance. This smart solution empowers your teams to keep your platform at peak performance by facilitating regular upgrades and supporting upgrade-safe extensibility. It achieves this through a suite of powerful features:

1. Provides Upgrade Suggestions Reducing Efforts By Up to 72%

On Spryker’s platform, 90% of new module upgrades are minor and patch releases. With Spryker Code Upgrader, minor and patch releases are offered as suggestions.
Suggestions provide everything needed to carry out the upgrade in one pull request, which simply needs to be merged with your platform.
It's these suggestions that semi-automate the upgrade process for Spryker customers, leading to an approximate 72% reduction in upgrade efforts¹, offering your team more time and energy to focus on core business tasks.

2. Offers Upgrade Notifications

A major setback in upgrading a platform is that your team may not receive a heads-up when new updates become available. This means they can be missed. The more upgrades are missed, the harder it becomes to upgrade quickly and efficiently! Spryker Code Upgrader provides your team with consistent upgrade suggestions that suit an agile work process and allow teams to develop continuous habits, benefiting the health and security of your platform overall.

This helps us to sleep better - way better!

We can focus on building our processes and selling our products and not focus on service stability, infrastructure, and all of those things.

[Spryker Code Upgrader] is saving us time and money we would rather spend on business growth and business development rather than just maintaining our platform. This, I think, is the biggest impact on our solution.

It really puts your mind at ease to always use the latest features and the latest versions without worrying too much about legacy code and technical debt.
– Andreas Flür, Product Owner & Developer, Pfeifer Group

3. Packages Releases Efficiently

As well as being continuous, Spryker releases include multiple modules released atomically. Upgrader assembles features from these multiple modules, with your teams receiving a complete and minimal upgrade suggestion representing each feature. This saves your team having to invest time understanding the dependencies in each update or having a feature partly installed. Upgrades are also presented in chronological order, allowing your team to swiftly action each. This ensures that if there is a dependency between several releases, your team will receive them in the expected order.

4. Provides Guidance for Upgrades

All updates come with guidance on how they should be applied, further speeding up the efforts of your team. This useful solution assists your team across the board but is particularly helpful for the approximate 10% of updates not offered as suggestions.

5. Detects Potential Conflicts

On top of offering details and guidance, Spryker releases will also detect potential conflicts with your existing project code. Any that are found will be flagged to your team to be made compatible before a release is applied, saving time and effort in the long run.

6. Prioritizes Security Updates

Spryker Code Upgrader prioritizes security releases over other updates, meaning these can be installed first. Acting on security releases from the PHP and NPM ecosystem, Spryker customers get notifications to apply these first, benefiting overall platform security.

Spryker Code Upgrader is a game-changer! It has reduced our upgrade efforts to around a quarter of what they were previously.

Our developers can now focus on the core processes and features essential to our business success instead of spending too much time on platform maintenance.

Now, when our team deals with platform upgrades, Spryker Code Upgrader ensures the releases are packaged efficiently, whilst the guidance it offers speeds up the upgrade process for the minority of releases not offered as suggestions.
– Giovanni Piemontese, Technical Lead IT eBusiness, Emil Löffelhardt

All of these features contribute to crucial benefits in the age of scarce developer resources, including:

Reducing Your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Optimizing Upgrade Speed
Maximizing the Productivity of Development Teams
Improving the Stability and Security of Your Platform

Upgrading your tech is not just a matter of staying up-to-date with the latest trends; it is an essential step toward maximizing your platform's potential. Spryker Code Upgrader allows your team to enjoy several functional solutions, empowering your company to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

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About Spryker

Spryker is the leading global composable commerce platform for enterprises with sophisticated business models to enable growth, innovation, and differentiation. Designed specifically for sophisticated transactional businesses, Spryker’s easy-to-use, headless, API-first model offers a best-of-breed approach that provides businesses the flexibility to adapt, scale, and quickly go to market while facilitating faster time-to-value throughout their digital transformation journey. As a global platform leader for B2B and B2C Enterprise Marketplaces, IoT Commerce, and Unified Commerce, Spryker has empowered 150+ global enterprise customers worldwide and is trusted by brands such as ALDI, Siemens, ZF Friedrichshafen, and Ricoh. Spryker is a privately held technology company headquartered in Berlin and New York backed by world class investors such as TCV, One Peak, Project A, Cherry Ventures, and Maverick Capital. Learn more at spryker.com.

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