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Microservices Consulting
Microservices consulting helps introduce reliable and cost-effective microservices that are easy to maintain and scale.
Since 2016, Vertscend offers all-around microservices consulting services – from pure advisory to implementation and support – for mid-sized and large enterprises, startups and mature ISVs.
Get Expert Help with Microservices!
Vertscend microservices consultants can help you:
- Plan and design a new microservices-based app.
- Review the existing microservices-based app design.
- Develop, test, deploy, support, and evolve a microservices-based application.
- Rebuild monoliths into microservices.
- Build a team on your side that can take ownership of microservices.
- Supervise and mentor your IT team through the microservices adoption journey.
Microservices Consulting Deliverables You Can Get
Project planning documentation for microservices implementation
- A feasibility study and a business case for microservices implementation.
- An implementation project plan with schedules.
- A RACI matrix for a microservices implementation project.
- A risk management plan for the implementation project.
- Business KPIs and technical KPIs to measure value from microservices implementation.
- A strategy for implementation costs optimization.
Microservices-based software design deliverables
- A detailed software requirements specification.
- Non-functional software requirements.
- Microservices-based solution architecture design.
- App infrastructure design and configuration guides.
Deliverables for the microservices development process
- Documented microservices code with unit tests.
- Microservices API descriptions.
- Cloud infrastructure configuration, integration with the on-premises infrastructure (if any).
- CI/CD configuration in the cloud.
- (for modernization projects) Data migration scripts.
Microservices QA documentation
- A QA strategy, a test plan with the testing scope, types and levels of tests, reporting procedures, etc.
- Test cases and checklists.
- Test automation architecture design, configuration of optimal testing tools and frameworks, automated tests scripts (API and UI tests).
- Test reports.
Why Choose Vertscend for Microservices Consulting
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- In IT since 1989.
- Average microservices project size: 25+ FTE, 40 microservices and over 80 CI/CD pipelines.
- Cloud consulting and development of cloud-based applications since 2012. Experience in designing and implementing microservices using AWS and Azure cloud services.
- In test automation since 2001.
- In DevOps consulting since 2014, DevOps engineers provide all necessary automation for successful microservices implementation.
- 700+ experts onboard, including PMs, BAs, architects, developers, data scientists, QA, security, DevOps, and support engineers.
- Expertise in 30+ industries, including healthcare, banking, retail, manufacturing, and telecom.
- 16 years in cybersecurity, information security management practices confirmed by ISO 27001.
- Competencies in advanced techs like big data (since 2013), IoT (since 2011), AI/ML (since 1989), AR/VR, AVI, blockchain, image analysis, etc.
- Compliance consultants in-house (HIPAA, GAMP, PCI DSS, and more)
- Owing to Vertscend experience in distributed modular systems, we cooperated with them on the evolution of our Azure-based product for accounts payable management. Vertscend was to cover end-to-end development of an intelligent paperless invoice processing module for the product.
- Vertscend developers used the microservices approach to ensure the system’s scalability, which is critical for us as our user base is growing. They selected and implemented techs that ensured the system’s availability and fault-tolerance in the future. We were particularly pleased with neat alignment of the developed module with our requirements.
- The new software module performs stably even under heavy load, which helps provide high-quality user experience for our customers.
Wadih Pazos, Chief Operating Officer, Paramount WorkPlace
Our Tech Stack for Microservices Projects
Web
Web
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BACK END
FRONT END
Mobile
Mobile
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Desktop
Desktop
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Platforms
Platforms
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Relational databases / data storages
Relational databases / data storages
Big data
Big data
Machine learning
Machine learning
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
FRAMEWORKS
LIBRARIES
CLOUD SERVICES
DevOps
DevOps
CONTAINERIZATION
AUTOMATION
CI/CD TOOLS
MONITORING
Test automation tools
Test automation tools
Clouds
Clouds
Microservices Consulting Offering by Vertscend
Microservices advisory
- Analyze the high-level business needs and microservices implementation drivers.
- Assess microservices feasibility.
- Create a business case for microservices implementation, TCO, expected ROI, NPV.
- Prepare a microservices implementation project plan.
- Identify risks of microservices implementation and prepare their mitigation plan.
- Design a microservices app architecture.
Microservices development
Advisory +
- Iterative development of microservices.
- Configuration of the microservices infrastructure.
- Integration of microservices.
- Microservices testing.
- Microservices-based app deployment to production.
- (on demand) Continuous KPI-based maintenance and improvement of the microservices ecosystem.
Microservices review and optimization
- Review functional and non-functional microservices app requirements.
- Review the granularity, architecture, communication and APIs of microservices and make recommendations for areas that need improvement.
- Design a new microservices architecture.
- Identify potential improvements in development and deployment processes, e.g., including continuous deployment pipeline, automated testing.
Rebuilding legacy apps into microservices
- Review the as-is monolithic application architecture.
- App modernization feasibility study.
- (optional) Review your software development and delivery practices and suggest improvements.
- Plan a new microservices-based architecture.
- Create a detailed roadmap for refactoring the monolith to microservices.
- Refactor the legacy app/help the in-house team to refactor the legacy app.
- Test and deploy the modernized app.
Microservices testing
- QA strategy, microservices test plan, test automation architecture design.
- Configuration of optimal testing tools and frameworks.
- Test environment setup and automated test data generation.
- Test automation script development and maintenance.
Microservices test artifacts are compliant with ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3:2013, including regular detailed reports on defects and test closure.
Enterprise-wide microservices adoption
- Analyze high-level business needs and microservices implementation drivers.
- Review microservices adoption readiness.
- (if needed) Introduce/improve infrastructure automation, cloud services usage, containerization, CI/CD, monitoring and management practices, etc.
- Provide a microservices cost optimization plan (optional).
- Define KPIs and tools to measure business value from microservices implementation.
- Select and prioritize applications to migrate to the microservices architecture.
- Develop microservices.
- Develop an effective API program.
How Enterprises Benefit From the Right Microservices
30%
higher user satisfaction due to stable and fast app performance, quicker updates
29%
faster software delivery due to separating large applications into smaller, more manageable functional components
29%
better security of data due to more security levels, atomic containerization, smaller attack surface, lower likelihood of cascading vulnerability, etc.
28%
improved application performance due to targeted load balancing, async queuing, etc.