Azure

Azure app modernization is the top approach for enterprises to maximize the value and competitive advantage from critical business applications. These app transformations seek to gain from cloud native features and are driven by strong business needs to add features, agility, scale, or performance that would be difficult to achieve with on-premise environments.

At SmartCoders, we’ve tackled several challenging Azure transformation journeys for our customers, by re-architecting and rewriting their applications from the ground up to be Azure-native. Along the way, we learned some key lessons on how to re-architect applications to be modular, scalable, fault tolerant and ultra-responsive.

PaaS & Container Architectures PaaS & Container Architectures

We are experts at converting traditional stateful applications into modern applications leveraging Azure PaaS services and container architectures for total control over scalability and resilience.

Agile & DevOps Driven Development

While modernizing applications we leverage an Agile DevOps driven approach that enables application delivery transformation by enabling toolchains and processes that support continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Front end vs Event Driven Applications

We can help develop and implement best-fit architectures and components depending on whether your application is heavy on end-user interactions (predominantly user driven and UI / UX is important) vs Event driven (IoT and business process automation Intelligent apps).

Hybrid & Multi-cloud Architectures

Corporate compliance, governance and performance considerations can mandate application components to remain within the Private cloud or existing on-premise environments, and still talk to the Public cloud components. Our professionals can help design solutions for optimal performance and scale.

Security & Authentications

While monolithic, on-premise applications are perceived to be protected due to the ability to implement centralized security policies while behind corporate firewalls, with our knowledge and expertise we can help deploy upgraded security postures within your Azure cloud environments.

Optimal Use of Cloud Services

We can assist businesses efficiently leverage ready-to-use Azure cloud services and solution components to reduce development time while benefitting from the inherent cloud-native features of the maintenance. Our professionals strike the right balance in the middle of upfront vs ongoing benefits of using these services.

Azure App Migration services, often a lift-and-shift of application workloads to Cloud IaaS (re-hosting), require minimal changes. Azure App cloud benefits can be gained by re-platforming and porting a few of the application components to cloud PaaS.

Re-Hosting

Host and migrate their existing legacy or monolithic applications to Azure IaaS, realizing current operational cost savings while taking the first steps towards full-fledged cloud transformation.

We leverage best-in-class automation tools and pre-defined templates to seamlessly shift data and applications to the new environment.

Re-Platforming & Re-Hosting

We re-platform selected application components to Azure PaaS to facilitate the performance, scalability, security, and low-cost maintenance benefits of leveraging PaaS as opposed to IaaS.

We make minimal adjustments to the application configuration without changing its core architecture or code base e.g. we can assist migrate an existing on-premise database to a DBaaS service in the cloud.

Azure Managed Platform Ops team handles the lifecycle automation for DevOps deployments for our customers. This includes CI/CD toolchain configuration deployment, maintenance, change and incident management, application release management, and monitoring of application telemetry. Additionally, they share joint authority for deploying and operating the delivery platform used by our development teams to build and operate applications with modern DevOps practices.

SERVICES

Our Azure Managed Platform services assist enterprises manage and improve their application build, release and deployment process. We offer a comprehensive suite of technology services for multiple Azure deployment scenarios – VM-based, Multi-tenant PaaS, Isolated PaaS and Containerized deployments.

Proactive PaaS / Application Monitoring

• Application Performance Monitoring
• Azure PaaS Monitoring
• Monitor Platform Health for High Availability
• Monitor Platform Compute Usage for Scalability Thresholds
• Monitor and detect Traffic Patterns and Usage Spikes

Application Continuous Integration [CI] Pipeline Management

• Application Build Pipeline Automation
• Integrate Unit Testing, QA, Code Analysis to Build Workflow
• Monitor Build Failures / Pipeline issues
• Continuance and Upgrade of DevOps CI Tool chain

Application Continuous Delivery [CD] Pipeline Management

• Automated / Orchestrated Application Release
• Post Release Support
• Deployment with Automated Infrastructure Provisioning
• Continuance and Upgrade of DevOps CI Tool chain

Resource Configuration Management

• Azure Multi-tenant PaaS Deployment
• Azure Containerized Deployment
• Azure Isolated PaaS Deployment

Security Management

• Application Vulnerability Scan Platform Remediation
• Penetration Testing Platform Remediation
• Manage Data at Rest Security