Synchronous development of business and application: strategic suggestions for application modernization

Original author ：Norbert Kiss, Vice President APCJ, NGINX

Link to the original text ： Business and application develop synchronously ： Apply modern strategy suggestions

Reprint source ：TheRegister

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  In today's interconnected digital economy , Every company can be said to be a technology company , And application is the core of enterprise innovation and transformation . There is no modern application strategy , Any business strategy is incomplete . For many businesses , Modern application strategy is almost equivalent to business strategy .

The development of technology has improved the ability of enterprises to collect and analyze information 、 Speed of decision making and innovation , CIOs are under increased pressure to keep companies up with trends . From a competitive point of view , Providing the digital experience that customers and stakeholders expect is the key to success .  

In order to support the agile internal processes used by millions of fast-growing customers and thousands of employees around the world , Financial services company Dutch commercial bank It improves the deployment agility and performance of online banking and mobile applications . It's worth mentioning , The company is deploying NGINX Solution to perform high-speed authentication and reverse proxy , Neither downtime nor complex configuration mechanism is required .

The important role played by software technology in the fourth industrial revolution further highlights the urgent need for modernization . Let's take the car for example , Today, the control system of an ordinary car contains about 1 One hundred million lines of code . In order to meet the needs of users and competition , The cycle from development to testing of modern applications has been shortened from a few months to a few weeks , Even for a few days 、 Few hours . Customers want to get response time like Google . Application experience may affect the fate of customers .

meanwhile ,Gartner The company reported that , Driven by cloud software deployment ,2022 The global enterprise software expenditure is expected to reach 5,570 Billion dollars . This is a Application as capital Era , Global enterprises continue to carry out application innovation 、 Change and enhance application competitiveness .

However , The CIO of many large enterprises is difficult to track IT Department operation 、 Hundreds or even thousands of applications for maintenance and protection . For CIOs , It is common to be uncertain about the total number of applications deployed . Increasingly diverse applications are adding new functions 、 While improving productivity , In some cases, it also increases the complexity of the tool chain .

With a lot of investment in traditional mission critical applications , To take advantage of the updated platform 、 Tools 、 framework 、 Libraries and frameworks , And don't want to bear the huge costs and productivity losses associated with restarting , Modernization is a wise choice .

Strike a balance between agility and security

Powerful application modernization strategy can provide many advantages , Including faster passing 、 More often 、 Deliver new functions more reliably to achieve software driven business agility , Support other services through API Easily use existing application functions , And support the easy migration of applications from local to cloud , So as to achieve excellent scalability and performance .

Most companies are usually motivated by new business plans or competitive needs , First, modernize some customer-oriented applications , And start building applications from there . then , The software team aims at the distributed computing paradigm （ For example, cloudy and mixed clouds ） Optimize these applications , Instead of rebuilding from scratch .

The increasing deployment of multi cloud and hybrid cloud has promoted the development of containerized applications , These applications are more portable in different environments . This trend is related to the shift from traditional single applications to microservices and DevOps The transformation of , Because enterprises want to speed up application development and market demand response .

for instance , The simple design of microservices supports independent development teams to handle loosely coupled work tasks in parallel , At the same time, they should cooperate and keep consistent with each other on common product vision and focus issues to meet business needs . Once the application functions are ready, they can be released .

On the other hand , The cost and complexity of applying modernization , Especially when the application is closely coupled with the existing system and infrastructure , It may hinder enterprises from improving customer experience and return on investment .

Another key challenge facing enterprises is , Implement and maintain consistent agility and security at every stage of the application development process .

Have your executives led the necessary cultural changes while pursuing enterprise process agility ？ for instance , Culture is DevSecOps A core concept of , In the entire software development life cycle , Every team member and stakeholders in every link adhere to safety first .

This requires breaking development 、 Operation and maintenance 、 Islands of safety and other key functions . All teams must work closely , Share the safety responsibility . what's more , This approach creates a safe and enabling environment for Sustainable Digital Transformation and innovation , Be able to maintain agility throughout the life cycle .

For empowering developers 、 Safety professionals and key stakeholder teams , We also need to create a framework to unify the platforms needed by today's digital businesses . Adding and upgrading tools or solutions to take advantage of microservices and cloud architecture can also cause a proliferation of tools , This leads to a sharp increase in complexity . Usually , People will inadvertently deploy multiple solutions with the same results .

CIOs must boldly change the way their teams deliver applications . Enterprises must adopt new application delivery methods 、 Application servers and API Management solution upgrade tool , To bridge DevOps And traditional infrastructure roles （ Such as NetOps and SecOps） Gap between , To speed up the DevOps investment , And expand cloudy 、 The use of containers and microservices .

Simplify the new normal

Before you start applying modernization to deliver business value , CIOs must first clarify the scope and priorities of a comprehensive transformation . Solve complex problems by establishing the visualization required for management applications . Rethinking IT Role , Adopt agile methods and take advantage of new generation functions to improve the construction of applications 、 Update and delivery methods .

for example , With consistent applications across multiple application architectures and infrastructures Threat visualization and analysis , The security and development team can monitor security compliance and evaluate changes in threat situations when releasing new application versions . Again ,NGINX Some products have also been launched to integrate multiple decentralized tools into a programmable software platform , thus Reduce the proliferation and complexity of tools .

these NGINX The product focuses on four basic application requirements  — performance 、 elastic 、 Security and scalability , To promote DevOps、NetOps and SecOps Teams collaborate effectively throughout the application lifecycle .

Singapore Ticket agent SISTIC  Through private cloud , Hosting containerized microservice applications and easy integration into DevOps Workflow , So as to accelerate application deployment and simplify application lifecycle management . This can be self-service and by API Driven platform in just a week, not a few months , Without affecting the security of the application 、 Performance and elasticity , help SISTIC Realize the operation of new products and services 、 Production and deployment .

Besides the most popular in the world Web The server 、 Besides the skills of reverse proxy and load balancer ,NGINX The scope of technology will continue to expand to other fields , Help enterprises support complex distributed microservices , And provide a digital experience as attractive as today's popular consumer applications . Effectively accelerate the modernization process of the company and reduce the complexity in the new normal of synchronous development of business and Application , In these areas ,NGINX In a favorable position in the market .

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