MICROSERVICES: STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

In a world where customers ask for a better Time To Market, always requiring high quality standards, it is essential to rely on industry experts with various successful experiences. Technology Reply adopts best practices, paradigms and techniques that have led giant companies to better manage the delivery of their applications based on Microservices architecture.

MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE

Market-leading companies are so different, but they also share an indisputable fact: their exponential growth in terms of users and application complexity that has put a strain on the scalability of their applications. The solutions adopted by these great competitors have contributed over the years to define paradigms and best practices that are now collected and recognized under the name of microservices architecture.

Technology Reply draws heavily from these experiences, studying them and understanding their various implications, and finally applying them with the appropriate customizations to enterprise projects in which it is involved. This leads to design and implementation of architectural solutions that guarantee maximum flexibility in terms of application growth, with particular focus on the quality, safety and speed of delivery of the products, trying to maximize customer satisfaction.


Several companies have engaged Technology Reply to coordinate and drive them through a strong modernization, realizing that the classic way of designing applications as monoliths does not allow harmonious and progressive application growth:

  • for customers driven only by intuition and with little certainty about the direction to take, Technology Reply is able to transform an abstract vision into a concrete interpretation of the needs by putting in front of the customer a clear and far-sighted transformation path that allows to realize their own applications using microservices architecture approach;
  • for customers with strong architectural skills and with clear ideas, Technology Reply offers decision-making support and technological skills to make customer requirements concrete in the best possible way.

Furthermore, Technology Reply is able to work both on start-up projects and on already existing applications, proposing refactoring solutions and progressive approach to microservices architecture.

SOLUTION

Technology Reply provides a team with professional skills in the design of microservices architectures who guide the customer from the collection of requirements, right up to the induction of its staff to maximize the benefits deriving from these architectures, maintaining them over time. Furthermore, it carefully designs the architecture by choosing the appropriate technologies, producing blue prints and detailed documentation, as well as workshops in which it illustrates benefits obtained by decisions made. Everything is designed according to DevOps practices to organize and optimize the work of the teams involved, which in this way can easily concentrate as much as possible on business logic, thus increasing the quality of the finished product and decreasing the time to bring it to production.

Technology Reply's work is not limited to design, but provides a series of professionals who deeply understand microservices architecture, and therefore know how to concretize it in the final software product, also contributing to its deployment, control and maintenance. Technology Reply also offers services after day-1: specialized teams with infrastructure skills can take care of the architecture and applications post-golive. Technology Reply knows how to work with both on-premise and cloud solutions and has containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) certified professionals, applying in the meantime continuous learning processes with “technologies watchtowers”, internal induction and updating courses to keep all staff up-to-date.


ADVANTAGES

Applications based on microservices architectures designed by Technology Reply solution architects are characterized by:

  • Resiliency: they have a high fault tolerance guaranteed by the ability of the infrastructure to "self-repair" without human intervention.
  • Elasticity: they are horizontally scalable through replicas to dynamically manage traffic peaks.
  • Adaptability: they naturally adapt to the addition of new features.
  • Security: secure protocols are used and infrastructure entry points are precisely defined, keeping them constantly monitored and updated.
  • Observability: all useful metrics are collected to determine the health of applications and predict any problems.
  • Reproducibility: the entire process (from development to deployment) is under CI / CD (continuous integration / continuous delivery) which guarantees extreme automation by minimizing human error and maximizing delivery speed.
  • ... and much more ...