Lesson2 of 51 min
How an App Actually Gets Built
Six stages from idea to a live product, and the one team that touches every single one.
Imagine you're building a food delivery app like Zomato. Here's what that journey actually looks like, stage by stage.
Idea to production: the software lifecycle
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Requirements
what users need
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Design
the blueprint
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Development
write the code
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Testing
verify it works
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Deployment
ship it live
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Operations
keep it running
Where does DevOps fit?
A DevOps engineer touches every stage of this lifecycle. They don't just deploy: they collaborate during design on infrastructure needs, build the platform dev and QA teams work in, automate the deployment pipeline, and own monitoring and reliability once it's live.