Month: November 2021

Application Modernization Strategies: A step-to-step guide

Posted on by Vaibhavi Tamizhkumaran

Businesses have seen an undeniable acceleration in digital transformation in recent past specifically since the pandemic began to tighten its hold on the planet. Enterprises gain agility and the flexibility to respond to dynamic business changes by modernising legacy applications. Most firms have recognised a high appetite for digital transformation, and software solutions are being upgraded and deployed at an unprecedented scale. According to Markets and Markets research, the global application modernization services market is predicted to increase at a 16.8 percent CAGR from USD 11.4 billion in 2022 to USD 24.8 billion in 2025.

Various factors are driving the need for application modernization, with COVID-19 limitations remaining one of the most important. Organizations are struggling to maintain a smooth workflow as a result of COVID-19 regulations forcing their employees to work from home. Under the great burden of rising app-based digital business transactions, businesses’ old programmes and software have given up, compelling businesses all around the world to update their legacy apps.

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In a very dynamic market, companies should have an application modernization strategy in place to maintain business continuity and growth. The greatest strategy to exploit current capital and minimise unnecessary technological investments is to modernise your existing apps or systems.

Modernizing legacy applications might help to avoid accruing technical debts and business immobility. This article explains how application modernization enables businesses to digitally shift and scale up during a pandemic.

What is application modernization?

Application modernization entails rewriting existing software to accommodate new computing methods. New languages, frameworks, and infrastructure platforms are among the updates. In this digital world, data becomes the primary business driven force to study and analyse the in-depth business dynamics in terms of sales, revenue, expenditure and proftis etc. The IT industry matured a lot in recent years and the latest technology advancements have made the giga bytes of data processing possible quicker which helps to forecast the business well in advance. Modernization process takes care of application security in greater width by enabling / enforcing multifactor authentication process which was not possible with older technologies.

Some businesses are ready to phase out older applications in favour of the most up-to-date. However, both financially and operationally, this can be expensive. As a result, “the most reasonable strategy to exploit newer platforms, technologies, and frameworks is to modernise applications.”

Benefits of Application Modernization

Cost reduction: Because of the pandemic’s limited resources, “cost” has been the most crucial motivator for application modernisation. For example, the more data you collect, the more you’ll have to pay for your on-premise data centre, requiring businesses to replace storage systems more frequently. It is costly to own and maintain infrastructure since additional costs for cooling, space, and electricity are incurred. Besides these costs, maintaining a large data center would necessitate a specialised IT team to manage the same. As a result, investing in timely application modernization is both reasonable and advantageous, as it helps to avoid all of the costs listed above. The recent cloud platforms (PaaS) offer zero dev-ops it means no manpower is required to maintain and manage the application with respect to deployment. Keeping all these factors like machine, manpower and other infra resources taking into account, enterprises would reduce the recurring expenses significantly.

Improves customer experience: The market has become a battleground for enterprises that cater to similar products and services. At a time like this, it is the customer experience that will give a company the needed competitive edge. Customers preferred with minimal clicks to get things done. Using an obsolete technology will be difficult attain this client experience. Legacy software has an impact on productivity and the time taken to complete the integration.

Furthermore, outdated software’s security flaws can easily jeopardise your business and consumer data, harming your brand. By altering the end-user interface, automating laborious procedures, and adding new features, application modernization can improve your customers’ experience. Essentially, more stable systems, faster updates, and improved security will make your business operations more efficient. All of this, taken together, distinguishes your company and ensures that it flourishes. Without investing extensively in all new technology, your company may get up to speed via application modernisation. In the long term, application modernization will increase revenue, efficiency and security of the applications.

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Application modernization strategies

An effective application modernization strategy can minimise the resources needed to run an application, increase the frequency and dependability of deployments, and improve uptime and resiliency. As a result, a plan for application modernization is a standard component of a company’s overall digital transformation strategy.

Legacy application support is difficult for a variety of reasons. These old and difficult-to-maintain systems are becoming progressively obsolete, making them less effective at fulfilling their intended goals as they age, while also posing cybersecurity risks. Leveraging legacy system modernization services can help organizations overcome these challenges by upgrading outdated applications with secure, efficient, and scalable solutions. While application modernization is not without its difficulties, the advantages are substantial. Here are five best practices to keep in mind when you create your approach:

Rehost: This strategy, often known as the ‘lift and shift’ concept, entails migrating your application’s fundamental resources from an on-premise data centre to the cloud in their current state. The application codebase is kept the same, but the infrastructure, which includes cloud-based storage, compute, and network resources, is transferred to cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Attempting to migrate current systems, particularly monolithic legacy apps, to a cloud architecture will prevent them from taking advantage of key cloud-native capabilities such as PaaS, multi-cloud, microservices, agile methodology, containers, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. However, this approach is good if you re trying to utilize the cloud benefits to save cost and as a disaster recovery option.

Refactor: The applications are expected to be on cloud nature in digital era. It includes modification of the application itself and part of code to avail all the benefits of a public cloud. Developers can take advantage of the organization’s strategic code by repurposing investments in languages, frameworks, and containers. It is a time and resource intensive, but the advantages that it brings outweighs the earlier said issues. Organizations take advantage of developing independent services for some of the functional features and make it useable for both internal and external users.

Re-architect: The legacy monolithic application is re-architected using the microservices model, containerized, and current DevOps processes in this option. This involves breaking down or dividing your monolithic application into a set of services that can be written, deployed, and managed separately. Rather than a complete rebuild, it entails fundamentally modifying or deconstructing the application into services. This divide-and-conquer approach to design gives you more control and offers advantages like business agility, faster time to market, lower costs, and the ability to reimagine the customer experience. Cloud-based PaaS (if desired), microservices, serverless, containerization, and current DevOps approaches are among the technologies used.

Rebuild: It’s comparable to a re-architecture, only that instead of remodelling, you’re flattening it and beginning again. And, as with a home, starting from scratch can be more cost effective and usually results in a much better outcome than a renovating effort. The programme is redesigned as a cloud-native application during the rebuild, which helps to speed up innovation, release value sooner, and lower overall operational expenses. Given advancements in technology, languages, frameworks, and other efficiencies, the effort necessary to construct the old programme in the first place could be far greater than the effort required to replace it today. Lower-level programming is now frequently abstracted.

Replace: You can sometimes replace a legacy programme with a more flexible cloud-based solution if it offers certain functionality that is still relevant. Replacing an on-premise version of Microsoft Exchange Server with the cloud-based Office 365 is a simple example. These services are now available as a pay-as-you-go subscription rather than a purchased licence.

The advantages of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions include always running the most recent version without the need for updates, significant cost savings, perhaps greater security, and moving the support responsibility outside of the business.

DevOps and Its Role in Cloud Deployment

Posted on by Indium

In a way, DevOps and Cloud serve similar purposes. Both promote automation, enhance the speed of development and deployment, facilitate communication and collaboration and so, it can be said that the two go hand-in-hand.

DevOps, a combination of the terms ‘development’ and ‘operations’, stands for the collaborative or shared approach taken by the application and IT operations team to perform their tasks. It facilitates greater communication and collaboration between teams while enabling iterative development of software, automating the process, and enabling programmable infrastructure deployment and maintenance.

DevOps speeds up the process of software development by 50%. In combination with the cloud, it is known to be faster by 80%.

Cloud computing provides DevOps automation with a centralized platform for testing, deployment, and production. It reduces the number of leveraged resources that need to be accounted for — while tracking costs and making adjustments as required. Broadly speaking, the combination of cloud deployment and DevOps increases efficiency and cost-effectiveness of digital transformation efforts.

Bringing Agility to Cloud Adoption

GitLab’s Fifth Annual Global DevSecOps Survey reveals that DevOps led to 2x faster release of code by 60% of developers. Of the 4,300 respondents surveyed from across the globe, a majority experienced a dramatically faster pace of technology adoption due to DevOps and 84% of developers reported faster code release than ever before. As against 8% in 2020, 55% of operations teams reported that their life cycles were either completely or mostly automated.

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Apart from speed, some of the other advantages include:

● Ease of Automation: DevOps services can simplify the automation of infrastructure management on the cloud as it enables server management, OS patching, implementing CI/CD for deployment automation, testing, and report generation.

● Replication of Cloud Server: Using DevOps, the complex replication process can be automated. Also, whenever a backup is taken, the servers have to be launched manually. This can be automated with DevOps, which can also provide tools to define the hierarchy/pattern of the infrastructure and define inter-communication patterns.

● DevOps Orchestration: DevOps orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet facilitate the complete coordination and control of automation of the entire hierarchy in the infrastructure. By integrating with the cloud, functions such as automated server provisioning and auto-scaling become possible.

● Effective Monitoring: Cloud monitoring typically involves receiving an email alert in case of any infrastructural assets deviating from the norm. By integrating with DevOps, it is possible to customize trigger alarms and other alerts enabling better utilization of resources.

● Rapid Deployment: As discussed earlier, speed is one of the greatest advantages of DevOps. When clubbed with the cloud, rapid deployment becomes simpler as it helps with solving infrastructural problems using the latest tools and building custom logic and writing capabilities. The whole process can be automated and error-free using single-click build tools that interact with the cloud services.

To ensure the successful integration of DevOps and Cloud, some of the prerequisites include:

● Defining your development requirements by assessing your current needs and future roadmap.

● Define the business case and the expected ROI.

● Define the initial DevOps processes, solutions, and the target cloud platform or platforms.

● Take a top-down approach to embrace the cloud as well as DevOps if both are new to the organization to get the buy-in of the resources.

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Best Practices to Make DevOps Possible for Cloud Deployment

To leverage DevOps for cloud deployment, both need to be understood and implemented well and decisions regarding DevOps tools and cloud platforms should be done in an integrated way. It also requires a change in the development culture of the enterprise and needs corresponding budgets.

Some of the best practices to ensure the successful use of DevOps for Cloud Deployment include:

● Improve teamwork and communication by connecting the workflows of development and operations teams using automation.

● An application’s technology stack can be managed and provisioned using techniques such as continuous integration or version control.

● Any problems that arise can be handled by managing logs and monitoring application and infrastructure performance.

● Automate tests and builds by combining code edits within a shared archive on a routine basis.

● Microservices architecture makes it easier to build and manage applications and adding functionalities quickly.

Indium — To Enable DevOps in Cloud Deployment

Indium Software is a rapidly growing technology services company with deep digital engineering expertise across Cloud Engineering, Data and Analytics, DevOps, Application Engineering, and Digital Assurance.

We bring to the fore deep expertise and experience in DevOps as well as cloud and can speed up your digital transformation efforts by integrating the two efficiently. Indium’s comprehensive set of DevOps services facilitates high-quality throughput of new capabilities and covers:

CI/CD Services

Create block-free code pipelines that ensure smooth value stream – from development, integration, testing to deployment

Deployment Automation

Contain the complexity of deployment with automation, freeing up time for value-added tasks

Containerization

With packaged executables, build anywhere, deploy anywhere with confidence.

The Art and Science of Managing a Mendix Project

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Let us start with some data, as shared by Forbes:

● 75% of ERP projects and 60% of Data Analytics projects fail to meet the original objectives according to a study conducted by Gartner

● When it comes to new product innovation using next-generation technologies, the failure rate is even higher at 95%

● According a study conducted by McKinsey, almost 70% of digital transformation efforts don’t meet all the original business objectives

To add to this, according to a Standish Group study reported in Project Smart UK, 31% of IT projects were canceled outright and the performance of 53% was challenged due to various reasons including lack of proper resources, poor definition of project scope, lack of accountability and bad project management.

Of course, this is not to say that these technology projects completely failed. Rather, it points to the fact that they do not perform as expected.

The question is: what is the solution? How can IT leaders and CIOs ensure that a project is truly successful and delivers the necessary business outcome?

In this blog, we restrict our focus to getting this right in the case of Mendix project, wherein an application is being developed or upgraded in the Mendix low-code platform.

Crucial Factors Contributing to Technology Project Success

A quick evaluation of the reasons for the failure of technology projects reveals poor project management to be the key culprit in causing delays, cost overruns, and failures

Broadly, we can say that the following are some of the most important factors to assure the success of your project and enjoy a good ROI:

● Resource planning: Resource management should be a key consideration in any project planning along with structures, themes, and interfaces. This includes human, financial, and even infrastructural resource planning.

● Goals and objectives: Having a clear goal with all the stakeholders aligned to it, is crucial for the success of an IT project. But often, there is a lack of clarity and, more importantly, lack of ongoing monitoring to ensure the project is progressing towards achieving the goals and objectives.

● Project visibility: Collaboration, communication and transparency are essential to keep all team members aligned and aware of progress, be up to date with the status of tasks and manage documents efficiently.

● Shifting goals: We are all familiar with new requests being added here and there. Though it may seem small, it can affect the overall progress of the project due to the impact on the resources and the outcome unless there is a tight reign on the project lifecycle.

● Unrealistic expectations: Be it the end goal, timelines, or capabilities of the team, a project manager needs a clear understanding and be realistic when setting the goals to improve the chances of success of the project.

Improved Project Management in the case of a Low-Code Development Effort using Mendix

Mendix development services facilitates a Scrum-based development approach allowing developers and other stakeholders to facilitate intuitive project management and rapid deployment to different environments by supporting the development process.

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At Indium Software, we have seen tremendous success rates using the Mendix Project Management Solution. For instance, we undertook a full-stack development of end-to-end services for an aggregator of real estate agents running a cloud-based digital platform offering brokerage services. It had to be scalable and provide features such as analytics for business workflows and role-based functions as well as value-added features to improve the application experience.

Developing on Mendix and leveraging the best functional delivery practices not only enabled onboarding 20,000 agents on the site but also delivered a strong digital experience.

One of the key highlights was rapid deployment with 100% delivery success.

Indium was able to achieve this by leveraging the Mendix platforms Project Management capabilities in the following 5 key areas:

● In-Built Storyboarding: One of the best features the Mendix platform offers is storyboarding, so essential for agile development. Normally, third-party storyboards

need to be integrated into the development process but with Mendix, it is possible to create and modify storyboards on the fly.

● Requirements Management: The success of a project is further assured by a closed-house, official forum that allows solutions to be accessed and fetched easily. Collaboration is made possible with other developers within the platform.

● Component Reusability: One of the greatest delaying factors in rapid deployments is component development that then needs to be stored in a JAR. But with Mendix, artifacts can be convened and stored in a forum or a community that is public or private and reused. Across applications, these components can be leveraged as a widget or an API. The artifacts also make third-party integrations very easy and fast.

● Sizing the Application: Sizing an application is a crucial and difficult task in any project. Mendix makes it simple by offering a containerized stack which is determined automatically based on the number of licenses requested. This enables automating and simplifying the deployment process, thereby improving the chances of a timely release.

● Low-Code: And, of course, the last but not the least — the fact that Mendix is low-code, and allows even non-technical users to leverage the prebuilt apps to manage assets, events, expenses, etc. — providing a guided, step-by-step app creation experience helps in rapid deployment boosts the team strength. Tutorials are available to help the users learn how to build complex app templates very easily.

In addition to the above, the Mendix platform is designed for easy management of requirements. Specifically, it is really simple to do the following

1. Backlog Management is a breeze

2. The Mendix Feedback Widget makes it easy to gather feedback from end-users

3. It is easy to integrate Mendix with third-party project management tools like Jira

4. The Mendix Developer Portal is a central hub for requirements management, task management and ensuring that all “user stories” get converted into features

5. With Mendix, it is easy to get access to Sprint Status and ongoing Progress

6. Last but not the least, it is easy to track and audit any changes made to the original project scope/requirements

Why Indium Software for Mendix Implementation

At Indium Software, we’ve established a strategic partnership with Mendix, the world leader in low-code development services. Over the last few years, we’ve serviced 30+ customers across the globe with a wide range of Mendix development services. We picked Mendix after careful evaluation of many different LCDPs.

Today, we employ 150+ Mendix developers and currently have 3 developers in the Top 10 of the global Mendix leaderboard. Over the years, Indium Software has built deep expertise in using Mendix to deliver enterprise-grade applications for clients in various sectors including healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI), consumer packaged goods (CPG), and retail.

Recently, we were a Platinum Sponsor at Mendix World 2021, and it was a wonderful experience for us to share the stage with some of the pioneers of the low-code revolution.

If you’re looking to build a new application or modernize a legacy application, in most cases low-code development is a good option to consider. It makes it easy for business teams to collaborate with developers as applications get built. Low-code Development Platforms like Mendix are also designed for speed, user experience, multi-cloud support, security, and scalability.

 

 

CI/CD- The Advantage You Didn’t Know You Needed

Posted on by Adhithya S

What is DevOps CI/CD?

DevOps practices combines the process of software development and IT operations to shorten a system’s development cycle. In DevOps one will come across two phrases frequently CI and CD. CI stands for Continues Integration and CD for Continuous Delivery and Deployment.

Continuous Integration is the practice that involves application developers making intricate changes to codes as the bugs arise to the main branch frequently. This process is automated according to the scale of requirement and number of things to be changed.

These completed codes are then sent for development and testing and then to production environment by operations team which is known as the Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Deployment is the immediate step after delivery. Depending on whether the company is constrained by regulatory requirements, it can be implemented in order to automate testing by deploying products continuously after the changes are done resulting in a large number of production deployments.

Make your Deployment more Efficient with CI/CD

Manual processes in software development inherently have a high rate of error and are prone to anomalies. Whether it is somebody who forgets to relay a certain piece of information to a new employee or if someone turns in a code that has one small mistake, automation comes into play and solves a lot of these problems.

Automation helps to make developers spend time creating the highest quality applications that are up to the customer’s expectations and delivers with minimal interruptions or glitches.

On-demand deployments and automated verification of software builds allows a DevOps practitioner to ensure the delivery pipelines are available and functioning as needed. When there is a standard format of on boarding newer services, there is an increase in quality of software as well as quicker identification of glitches during building and after deploying.

Benefits of DevOps CI/CD

Reduced Time to Market: organizations have found an effective way to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery to bring products and features faster to market. This not only generates early revenues but if there are components in the pipeline that seem to be defective or algorithms that are outdated in nature those can be pulled with a single seamless click.

Continuous Feedback with Increased Transparency: In a DevOps environment where CI/CD pipelines are at work, it is crucial that your team communicates at every turn so as to encourage a form of accountability. CI focuses on giving the development team feedback on merging problems & build problems, whereas CD helps in getting the required customer feedback.

Reimagine your Software Architecture: A loosely coupled architecture can facilitate scaling up and down enabling greater business agility. One way to achieve this is to use insights from the deployment pipelines to drive tasks and responsibilities for software and teams alike to drive maximum efficiency

Automated Releases: As the process of merging and testing codes is sped up with CI, it leads to more consistent build processes that will ultimately result reduced risk of poor user experience.

Rapid Deployment negates Inefficiency: Small changes are easier to diagnose hence, the test suites are also smaller. This means that only the immediately changed code that need integration will require retesting. The teams essentially engage with the task at hand rather than moving on to another task while the slow build or test processes run.

Is your CI/CD Strategy up to the Mark?

There are a number of things to keep in mind whilst measuring the success of an organization’s CI/CD strategies. This includes making sure there is maximum uptime. Alongside a good CI/CD strategy, the automated processes should get error rates down and infrastructure rates down with constant maintenance

There needs to be an improvement in time to value so once the code is written, it can be instantly deployed into the market whilst making the necessary changes. Quicker automated deployments also need constant vigilance in terms of making bug fixes- and examining patterns in QA processes that can help make this practice a lot smoother.

Along with an improved cycle time with automated deliveries, there also comes a certain amount of retention from the developer’s side to gauge the effectiveness of a DevOps team. Team retention rates help to determine what teams work better to achieve objective goals.

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The Way to Efficiency

Current software development trends include the widespread use of cloud-native applications, where core business functions are being moved to the cloud. AI and ML capabilities are becoming more and more accessible that leads to increased automation of tasks.

The benefits of CI/CD impact every end of the spectrum of development cycle. It most importantly affects the end-customer experience and the overall business strategy for an organization. Enabling a development team to respond to changes faster, incorporate real-time feedback and more. All of the above helps in cost savings, more profits and a quality end product.

 

Accelerating Application Modernization with AWS

Posted on by Sangeetha Govardhan

When Covid was taking a toll on most business, few of the businesses were grappling with
another kind of problem. Growth!

One online grocery chain which was growing 30-40% every year before the pandemic started seeing the traffic spike, sometimes to 6 times the usual daily traffic. Ecommerce stores and other online marketplaces who run regular festive sales know all too well on what spike to expect and they prepare accordingly, sometimes months ahead of time. But not all businesses are able to forecast their future needs.

AWS to the rescue

The grocery chain who was setup on AWS immediately consulted the experts within AWS. The company had already begun shifting to asynchronous work queues in 2018, isolating workloads into containers and breaking up its monolithic architecture. However, the onset of the 2020 lockdown shifted this process into high gear. By mid-2020, the company was fully containerized with 60 microservices running on Kubernetes.

Automated scaling features that come with a containerized approach has helped the company accommodate the extreme spikes in traffic the site now experiences. Daily order volume was averaging 250,000 in 2019 and had risen to 400,000 each day by late 2020. Even during its transition to containers, it maintained 99.9 percent uptime on its website, with response times under 350 milliseconds for its customer-facing APIs.

Furthermore, due to efficiencies gained with containers and automation, the company managed to bring the monthly AWS spending down to pre–COVID-19 levels, even though it was serving a much higher volume of traffic.

The true benefit of Application Modernization

Addressing such challenges with ease is not uncommon on AWS platform. But what is of concern is that many organizations are not prepared to meet these opportunities and challenging arising out of growth. Point in case is the opportunities created by digital transformation.

Covid has accelerated the need for digital transformation and the need for agility, resilience, flexibility, and adaptability. And organizations that ride on rigid, monolithic legacy systems and applications are finding themselves unable to adapt to unforeseen market conditions.

Though the market has seen mostly laggards when it comes to modernization, one recent study by Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of global enterprises would have modernized applications. Irrespective of the cloud vendor, application modernization is generally expected to provide the below mentioned benefits

How does AWS enable organizations to embrace App Modernization?

While all cloud vendors provide a plethora of tools and resources for facilitating app modernization – including microservices architectures, containerization, managed databases, serverless computing and much more, AWS cloud services make it extremely easy to modernize applications. Let’s take a quick look at these services.

Microservices

The most common pattern of app modernization involves refactoring and breaking down a monolithic app into small, loosely coupled microservices. AWS offers all the necessary building blocks for doing this, including compute, data storage, networking and messaging services, logging and monitoring and DevOps.

Given below is a simple comparison of a Monolithic vs Microservice based Architecture for an application.

Containerization

Containers aid us in app modernization because they remove access to resources, such as storage, from the original application. This accelerates the refactoring of a legacy app since the containers handle much of the access to native cloud resources.

AWS container services offer the broadest choice of services for running containers, which may explain why 80% of all containers in the cloud run on AWS. There’s AWS Fargate for serverless compute and Amazon EC2 if control is needed over the installation, configuration, and management of the compute environment.

There’s also a choice of the container orchestrator to use: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or fully managed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In addition, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed docker container registry that makes it simpler and faster for developers to store, manage, and deploy container images.

Databases

Database is a critical part of an App development phase and cannot be ignored, during app modernization.

Amazon Aurora serves as a highly available, secure, and cost-effective database foundation for developing and delivering cloud-ready apps. Amazon DynamoDB can handle the massive data volume and accommodate quick lookups for personalized searches. For session state, in-memory store for sub-millisecond site rendering, there’s Amazon ElastiCache.

AWS Managed Databases for different use cases – all of them compatible for a Serverless architecture

Serverless

For serverless computing capabilities, AWS provides a set of fully managed services. For example, AWS Lambda lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers and pay only for the compute time consumed.

AWS CodePipeline can be used with the AWS Serverless Application Model to automate building, testing, and deploying serverless applications. AWS CodeBuild integrates with it to provide automated builds. AWS CodeDeploy can be used to roll out and test new Lambda function versions.

Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora (MySQL-compatible edition). The database automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales up or down based on an app’s needs.

Amazon RDS Proxy, a highly available database proxy, manages thousands of concurrent connections to relational databases. This makes it easy to build highly scalable, secure serverless applications that connect to relational databases.

Reference Architecture for a simple serverless Mobile application is below

Partnerships that can help you scale

When organizations strive to shape interactions across the entire customer journey through digital-first business models, a comprehensive cloud transformation strategy and choice of cloud platform aligned to its business are key factors for success. AWS, with its complete set of pre-fabricated toolsets helps break down innovation barriers, turns the organization more agile, collaborative and customer focused.

What organizations need is an AWS consulting partner with a track record of aligning business strategic imperatives with cloud platform capabilities. A full-spectrum integrator like Indium can not only help accelerate digital transformation on AWS but also transform ideas to business value faster.

Regardless of where you are in your digital journey, Indium helps you to migrate/modernize your applications and data on the cloud, make sense of the data and leverage automation to scale and innovate in a secured, reliable and compliant fashion.