The last few years have seen significant changes in the way modern application development companies deliver utility and value to their customers. The pace of the changes they make to their services and products has also accelerated. There used to be a time when only technology companies were tech companies. But now, every company, in all industries, is becoming one in order to stay current and compete in the current digital world. This calls for better, faster, more efficient, and digitally modern application development to be pursued.
Here are five best practices for modern application development:
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Componetize Applications Using Microservices
Even if you do not find managing your monolithic application difficult to manage, future challenges, such as distribution of the app across your teams, can impact your operations. An application architecture that requires hard dependencies often results in teams trying to avoid taking ownership of the final product, which makes the company struggle to scale up. An effective solution for it is building rapidly-changing and growing microservices architectures. Microservices chops complex applications into dividends that a team would welcome with open arms and will easily manage.
A shared release pipeline in the case of a monolith causes numerous points of friction across the lifecycle as several developers push modifications through it. However, by shifting to microservices, a broader use case can be obtained by breaking down a monolith and deploying the resulting minimal function services together. The builder team of each microservice is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, producing, fixing, and quality assurance.
Some other reasons for using microservices for modern application development include:
- Quick and safe integration of new features
- Faster adoption of new technology
- Low-risk experimentation
- Ease of services rewiring into new compositions
- Optimization in team productivity
- Granular scaling for cost-control
- Improvement of application resiliency
Automate the Release Pipeline for Quick Updates
A bogged down release pipeline means an inability to quickly get new features to the customers. Nothing slows down the release velocity more than manual build requests, code changes, deployment, and testing. By automating these steps, a repeatable motion makes them faster and more efficient. For that purpose, you need to integrate your release pipeline with CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) so that efficient codes can be released more often.
Continuous Integration involves the practice of merging the code changes into a central repository. Running of automated tests and builds follow the accumulation. Continuous Delivery, on the other hand, enables an automatic preparation of code changes for production release. Continuous delivery, following the build stage, deploys code changes to production and testing environments.
Studies indicate that practicing CI/CD integration allows teams to have 44% more time on their hands for new codes and features creation. Furthermore, it gives way to a 46 times more frequent deployment rate and a five times lower failure rate.
Employ Serverless Technologies for Simplified Infrastructure Management
The use of serverless technologies to build microservices architectures offers developers the agility required for rapid innovation. It is the basis for an operational model that allows offloading of non-core competency activities of the business. Managing servers and provisioning them can take time, cost, and energy away from the core operations of running and building services and applications. Serverless technologies not only waiver the need for server management but automate high availability, provide flexible scaling, and allow you to spend money on nothing but value. It takes away the need to manage the underlying aspects of the applications and allows you to focus on details that offer your customers pure value.
Automate Security of the Entire Modern Application Development Lifecycle
The ‘Sec’ in DevSecOps is crucial as it allows the incorporation of compliance and security throughout the application development process. Without the integration of automated security, the testing phase comes only at checkpoints or after the development phase is completed. The diagnosis and rectification of security issues demand valuable time and finances.
Security automation offers constant monitoring during the development process and identifies issues when they are at their roots. You can be sure at every stage of the application lifecycle that your business and your customers are secure and the product is functioning as it was intended to. Security automation offers you fine-grained and solid control over the security policies of microservices. It also keeps the development cycle from slowing down and release from getting delayed.
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Increase Observability to Improve Application Performance
Constant and complete information of what is going on in the system available on a single point of reference is only possible with efficient and systemwide observability. It requires a collection of adequate amounts of data and monitoring metrics and logs by tracing them. You can come up with solutions faster and provide your customer more value if you have increased visibility into the health of your products and services.
Observability is comprehensive visibility of the whole system that requires traces, logs, and metrics. You can collect and aggregate error rates, response rates, and other metrics by having your services expose them. Aggregation is useful for looking at the system in a holistic manner. It is also crucial to set efficient and effective standards for a healthy system. A unified, real-time, and bird-eye view of resources allows you to quickly respond to issues and enhance the overall modern application development performance.
To architect, develop, and manage software, modern application development is a highly effective approach. It enhances the quality, security, and reliability of the applications and allows you to release high-quality products at a fast pace. Furthermore, the approach makes the operations of your application development teams more agile and efficient. By adopting the above-mentioned best practices of modern application development, you can experiment, innovate, and increase your chances of success regardless of the kind of applications you develop.
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