How to scale beyond modernization

Following modernization, organizations may be challenged to achieve maximum agility from their applications for many reasons. For example, the scalability and elasticity of the application portfolio may remain dependent on IaaS and PaaS layers. Additionally, the application layer may still operate in a traditional static manner, meaning that DevOps teams face the same challenges experienced in a monolithic architecture.

To truly achieve agility at scale with application modernization, enterprises need to think beyond the adoption of microservices, containerization, and the DevOps approach in the development process. Accelerated development velocity is of no relevance if there are challenges further along in the workstream. For example, if there is a bottleneck in operations, improvements in time-to-market from having an updated architecture will never yield the anticipated benefits.

The path beyond adoption of modern architectures includes establishing the right blend of intelligent design-time and run-time controls to continuously monitor, govern, predict, and self-heal a cloud-native ecosystem. Design-time controls focus on preventing failures by injecting design patterns on service discovery, event sourcing, rules management, and data-model designs. Run-time controls help detect, predict, and auto-resolve failures by implementing mechanisms such as continuous logging, monitoring, and proactively self-healing for faulty or low-performing microservices. This means operations has the same level of elasticity and scalability as the application layer.

A DevSecOps toolchain includes end-to-end run-time controls with intelligent logging, monitoring, and auto-healing solutions that can proactively detect or predict application errors and security vulnerabilities, correlate and perform root-cause analyses across app code, container, PaaS, and IaaS layers using policy and AI/Ml-based models, and trigger auto-resolution/business transaction reconciliation using purpose-built RPA and orchestration solutions.

For more information, please check out The app-modernization manual: The definitive guide to building intelligent apps from Capgemini, or reach out.

Rishi Kulkarni

Expert in Cloud

I find it rewarding to assist clients with initiatives that help them digitally modernize and transform their applications. As an Enterprise Architect Director, I am a leader in the cloud-native practice within our application and cloud technologies (ACT) service line. I have 20 years of IT experience in delivering digital transformation architecture and B/OSS solutions.
My expertise includes presales and practice management. This has helped me, over the years, create multiple practices from scratch and successfully manage alliance and center-of-excellence teams. By using cloud-native and DevOps solutions, I help create innovative, high-performance, and scalable architectures and strategies. I am responsible for improving customer experience, operational excellence, and the cost-effectiveness of large-scale enterprise IT ecosystems.
My recent work includes:
• Leading the end-to-end architecture of a $60-million digital and cloud-native transformation of a supply chain’s ecosystem
• Implementing more than eight OSS transformation programs, including the modernization of network operations centers in Europe and the USA
• Leading a $120-million best-of-suite implementation
• Deploying a nation-wide FTTx network in the UK. Throughout my career, I have worked with many different clients across various industries.
I was often responsible for providing next-gen solutions to transform legacy networks, and driving intelligence and automation within service and network operations centers. I have written several white papers and articles on multiple digital and innovation solutions, including an external publication on transformation strategies.
I have also received customer awards for leading the architecture and implementation of a digital platform, and for co-authoring and presenting a whitepaper on service-quality benchmarking. I apply my strong understanding in these areas to better serve our clients, and ensure we provide them with the high-standard outcomes they expect and deserve from our solutions.