“Are you just starting on the digital transformation journey or still wondering what cloud-native is all about?”

Recent events forced organizations to accelerate the adoption of digital transformation, and the ability to quickly adapt and respond to unforeseen disruptions proved to be the critical factor of success or survival. Cloud-native applications and infrastructure provide the responsiveness, scalability and resiliency needed to meet the rapidly changing demands. However, cloud-native is not just about where it all resides but, more importantly, the way it is done. The cloud-native approach covers many aspects, and our experts can assist you in the various areas to reach your business goals.

Microservices address the concerns with monolithic applications becoming more challenging to manage and understand as they grow over time and a longer time to market. The architecture promotes applications consisting of many independent, self-contained services, so each of them can be developed, deployed, scaled and managed independently. As a result, companies can grow their applications per the workload and requirements more efficiently. We help our clients to refactor the legacy applications and reap the benefits of the architecture.

Modernizing the monolithic applications is a continuous and incremental journey and implementing a Service Layer is a good starting point. The service layer acts as the façade to the whole architecture from the users’ perspective. It allows you to decompose and migrate existing features, finally turning on the new microservices when they are ready, while unknownst to the users. We have successfully implemented the service layers for customers, helping them take the initial step on the modernization journey.

DevOps is an essential component of cloud-native, and it focuses on building and delivering applications collaboratively with the delivery teams, including development, quality assurance, security and IT operations teams. DevOps platforms can help facilitate the collaboration between teams and enable contribution from everyone so that the teams can iterate and innovate faster.

Automation should be implemented in every stage of the delivery pipeline to provide the teams with infrastructure-on-demand, quicker feedback on the code quality, more predictable test results and security enforcement at scale. Our consultants have worked with clients to integrate the various automation tools into the pipelines and increase development velocity.

With the adoption of cloud-native technologies and practices, more application components are deployed in more places and more frequently, potentially causing more unknowns. Observability is about collecting the relevant data and just enough of them to answer the unknowns of your running systems and solve the underlying problems whilst not overspend on money and effort.

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