Transformation Experts

Application Modernization

 

Transformation Experts is a team of IT Professionals who have master the space of Application Modernization. Your best bet is the  expertise and experience of the team who will drive the Application Development for you. Here I will mention about important aspects of Technical Qualification, Skills and Roles of the Developers & Architects.

This blog is for Software Professionals & Enterprise IT Managers who are aware of Application Modernization concepts.

Technical Skills & Roles

Application Developer Team should have varied Technical Expertise

1. Certified Professionals
2. Cloud Architects
3. Microservice Developers
4. Application Developers
5. Architects
6. Multi-Cloud Experts

 

Certified Professionals

Certification is assessment of demonstration of skills. Prominent Certifications are available for IT Professional in the field of Distributed Application Development & Management. Having certified professionals in your team will increase your chances of lowering the mistakes and adhering to your planned delivery timelines. Prominent certifications are as follows:

• Microservice Developer Certification from RedHat.
• Solution Architect & Developer Certification from AWS.
• Developer Associate Certification from Azure.

Cloud Architects

Cloud Architects help your services to be compatible and make best use of Cloud Native features. Cloud native applications are best suite for your Modern Applications. While each Cloud vendor has specific features unique to their offerings, A generalized expertise is organized by adhering to the use of industry practices like using Kubernetes.

Cloud Architects contribute to unique features for the desired cloud platform, hence your applications can take advantage of available options. Eg. Lambda services in AWS is similar to Azure functions. Complexity in working with similar and distinctive features of Cloud is solved by Cloud Architects.

Microservice Developers

Microservices can be of various types and they can adopt to various Inter Service communication channels. There are many technology stacks which are best for few types of requirements while they are good for almost any microservice.

• Microprofile & Spring are used for Java based Microservice Developement.
• Node.js, React Js, Vue.Js are for Javascript based Microservice Development.

Microservice Developers use their expertise for Microservice Development.

Application Developers

Application Developers have skills for developing in Java, .Net, Node.js etc languages.  Their contribution is important to meet the business functionality within the Modernized Application. The business functions are implemented by these developers and they become part of Microservices.

Architects

Architects are involved from initial state of Application Modernization where they come up with Compliance requirements like Enterprise Architecture, Devops, Delivery Guidelines etc. They decide on the execution platforms, communication channels, scaling, resiliency etc features of the application

Multi-Cloud Experts

In the time of Infrastructure As A Service, where Enterprises have to select best option from Public to Private Clouds and combination of On-Premises and On-Cloud Infrastructure, Multi-Cloud Expertize should always be handy for smooth execution of Modernized Applications.

Knowledge of Orchestration tools like Kubernetes & Openshift along with unique offerings of each vendor will influence the Architecture decision for your Modernize application.

While this are just high level activities, things can go very dizzy as you move ahead. "Transform" tool from Miracle Software Solution can help you in automating many of these activities and get a Microservice Hybrid Application instantly, in less than 5 Hours. You can also evaluate it within free workshop. You can request the same on their website's Contact Us section.

New Patterns Introduced for Digital Transformation

Wrapper Controller: It adds Rest Controller which wraps the Java Class. All methods are exposed through matching endpoints.
 

Class Bridge: It bridges the conversion of datatype of request payload and response body to the datatypes matching to the method parameters and return type
 

Controller Client: It replaces the method body with the call to rest client. It uses Json convertors to transform the Datatypes into Json which can be sent as payload to the rest client and also to convert the response into the Java class types of the response.