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Enterprise Concerns: Changing Technologies

A common concern found in enterprise organizations is often: “How do we know that something new is not going to come along and make our current technology stack obsolete?” Or, “How long is our current technology stack going to last?”

The short answer is that we don’t know, at least not without a doubt. To our clients, we suggest that change will happen, so they should proactively put in place a decoupled system architecture that provides a smaller surface area of change for future applications.

There are two architectural styles that have become popular in the last few years that can help this proactivity come to pass, and in the process give agility. They are known as Single-Page Applications and Microservices. In this document, we will discuss these two patterns, including an overview of how they work, when best to consider them, and suggestions for a successful implementation of each approach.

In this white paper we discuss two architectural styles that mitigate technology shift and promote agility: Microservices and Single-Page Applications.

SPA & Microservices Can Solve Enterprise Problems

Single-Page Applications and Microservices architectural approaches can speed up the software development process and help eliminate the problem of investing too many resources in building software solutions that become so large and complex that they cannot be changed or easily replaced.

It is important to say that these approaches are not silver bullets; there may never be such a technology. That said, there is the widespread adoption of HTML5/JavaScript, internet protocols, available cloud-based container technologies that allow computing resources to be easily managed and obtained, and some successful smart companies using these technologies and generously sharing them.

If you are looking to rewrite a Monolithic application or build a new application, then SPA and Microservices styles of architecture deserve a look. As always, we suggest an incremental adoption approach with adequate analysis and consulting support.

Other Microservices Learning Resources

White Paper Abstract
There are many viable use cases for blockchain technology. In these strange and unsettling times, another one has unfortunately emerged: the tracking and dissemination of patient testing data amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Blockchain technology offers a solution to the specific problem of sharing secure and up-to-date patient testing data. This paper describes a HIPAA-compliant blockchain solution and implementation for an efficient, near real-time single source of truth for lab results. The blockchain implementation will be compared to a traditional data-sharing model and analyzed for its features that directly benefit the virus lab result tracking use case. 
 

The white paper comes with an open-source and ready-to-use blockchain implementation "Keyhole Virus Tracker" available on Github.

White Paper Abstract