Benefits of Application Modernization: Key Business Gains

Unlocking the Potential of Application Modernization

Recent research shows that the global application modernization services market was at USD 18 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow over 15% by 2030. Furthermore, the need to reduce IT complexity and operational costs is driving the adoption of application modernization services.

As businesses scale, they are actively rethinking their traditional architecture and exploring more modular approaches for a frictionless experience.

Traditional product architecture, such as Monolithic Systems, faces scalability issues for complex applications, delayed time to market, and longer deployment times. Despite setting up the application quickly, traditional architecture hinders business expansion and growth.

How to identify a monolithic system?

• Full-scale deployments for incremental updates: Every change, regardless of size, requires deploying the entire application, leading to significant downtime and higher risks.
• Single, large codebase: A single, unwieldy codebase that complicates simultaneous development by multiple teams, creating bottlenecks and slowing down the development process.
• Scaling challenges: Expanding the entire application, even for minor enhancements, rather than scaling individual components based on demand.
• Integration and innovation challenges: Incorporating new technologies or migrating to cloud services is daunting due to the tightly coupled components, limiting your organization’s ability to innovate and stay competitive.
• Limited organizational agility: Hinders quick responses to market changes or business needs, as adjusting or adding features is slow and cumbersome.
• Resource Inefficiency: The system consumes more resources than necessary for maintaining and operating less critical features, leading to increased operating costs.

Decomposing Monoliths into Microservices

A microservices architecture organizes an application as a set of loosely coupled services to speed up software development through continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) processes. Each microservice handles a specific function, and interaction occurs through well-defined APIs. As a microservice’s code becomes more intricate, it can be easily split into additional microservices without impacting the application’s overall performance.

Why are Microservices better?

• Faster time-to-market: Different teams can develop microservices independently, leading to fewer obstacles and reducing the overall time-to-market for the product.
• Better scalability: Features can be scaled independently across various servers and providers.
• Operational resilience: Each microservice operates autonomously, so the failure of one component does not impact the entire product, unlike in monolithic applications.
• Agility: Each microservice is managed by a small, self-contained team, allowing for individual team pace and increased agility across the organization.
• Code reusability: Since microservices run as separate code pieces, they can be used as building blocks for the same functionality in multiple products.

AWS Microservices

Migrating to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud has several advantages, including technical and business agility, new revenue opportunities, and reduced costs. To fully capitalize on these benefits, enterprises need to refactor their monolithic applications into microservices. This requires assessing engineering processes and establishing data-driven governance.

AWS is a top choice for businesses to design and launch applications, as evident from Amazon’s lion’s share of the global cloud infrastructure market. AWS microservice allows you to configure the requisite architecture and choose any operating system, database, framework, programming language, or other essential services. This adaptability not only simplifies the migration of existing apps but also speeds up new application development.

AWS offers a host of managed services with high performance, observability, and security features for faster and more efficient implementation and sustenance of business applications.

Choose Ness for your modernization journey

As a premier AWS partner, Ness can seamlessly deploy microservices architectures on the cloud or on-premises. We leverage detailed business domain knowledge, a deep understanding of legacy technology, and a modern approach to infrastructure, ensuring you make the most of the cloud. With strong product engineering expertise and a robust partner ecosystem, we have executed over 20 decomposition projects in 24 months. Recently, Ness collaborated with a leading Edtech company to modernize their assessment platform.

The transformation of an existing monolithic system to a set of business-focused microservices can significantly lower operating costs, foster innovation and cloud migration, and enhance speed & organizational agility. Adopting a microservices architecture offers substantial advantages to your business. Organizations can either spend a fortune scaling or leverage microservices architecture on AWS to achieve cost-effective scaling.