AWS Cloud Application Development
Why Cloud Native Apps?
Every application running in the cloud is not cloud-native, Cognilium’s cloud-native app are architected for high-velocity small increments of features with agility and automated CI/CD. This agility is achieved by keeping low adhesion between multiple services and storage layers, one other benefit of this low adhesion design is that specialized small teams can develop each diverse function to make the most comprehensive app experience. Further, this design allows for the portability as well as fault tolerance and robustness of the whole app or subcomponents.
Why do you need to cloud native transformation?
- Short cycle time of conception-to-impact: Short life cycle software increments that give your business a competitive edge, one feature at a time, is crucial in this age of disruption.
- Do more with less: Large part of cloud-native apps, both in terms of fabric and components, is leveraging managed services from cloud providers like AWS
- Achieve a competitive edge economically and with certainty: Cloud provider’s best practices teach us how to achieve differentiating features quickly and at the right scale without deep investment into custom code or specialized proprietary tools.
Portability cloud and everything else …
Cloud-native app design is not limited to only running in public cloud. Some businesses require a part of data or services to run on on-prem servers or their business has a dependency on service from more than one cloud vendor. The most comprehensive cloud native architecture should provide portability between cloud and on-pred i.e. hybrid cloud or should allow for connecting to cloud service or code running on multiple cloud vendors.
Four Pillers of cloud native development
Microservices
Containerization
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
- In our cloud-native app dev approach, we standardized the reusable functionalities as APIs. These APIs are energized into applications using microservices in an event-driven architecture. Such architecture leverages managed services from cloud companies like AWS to reduce the need for expensive DevOps talent in-house.
- Our cloud-native apps are easy to maintain and scale whenever needed, as we leverage AWS-managed services containerization like ECS / EKS / Fargate.
- Our Agile process model of adding new features and growing app functionality in small increments leverages the power of AWS CodePipeline-CodeBuild or Jenkins
- AWS Lambda and serverless Databases reduce the infrastructure provisioning and optimization costs and also achieve flexibility of scale without frequent failure.
- Our cloud-native architecture considers purpose-specific databases for information intensive apps. Other than SQL Server we extensively use NoSQL cloud databases like Aurora Postgres, OpenSearch, ElasticCache, Neptune, and DocumentDB.
- Our cloud-native apps come with DevOps automation through AWS Elastic BeanStalk / OpsWorks. For customers with bigger IT teams, we also provide DevOps capability through AWS CloudFormation and AWS CloudWatch with an option of 24/7 support.
Why choose Cognilium for cloud native:
- Cognilium’s cloud native engagements are spearheaded by architects that are trained to solve problems cost effectively while lowering cap-ex as well as op-ex.
- Unlike waterfall methodology that is used for legacy and monolithic apps, our Process methodology is well suited for small iterative and reversible feature addition
- Our functional consultants and cloud architects synergize with your business and IT teams to prioritize most impacting features for our agile backlog. Such prioritization is guided by our experience in cloud native best practices and deep KPI understanding of our functional analysts.
Cognilium as your partner brings:
Highly Talented Cloud-first Developers and Consultants
Cognilium brings years of experience in cloud-based app modernization, data integration, data platform reengineering, and NOSQL and information retrieval-specific design. Our experience in making legacy apps scalable and moving workloads from traditional databases to read or write optimized schemas using cloud-native modern databases. Our offshore heavy team structure enables us to offer competitive rates while maintaining design and implementation quality. Our team's prime objective is business outcomes resulting from our solutioning and not individual code components.
Engagement that is focused at your success
Cognilium’s engagement model is tailored to your constraints and project velocity. Our customers can choose offshore/onsite mix, scrum vs kanban, fixed price solution vs time and material based co-design with your IT and pure staff augmentation. Our consultants drive your project planning and requirement prioritization in the cloud-native journey. We have developed strategy templates to recommend cloud app dev team structure, cloud platform components finalization, and cost-effective cloud transformation.
Inculcate cloud-first culture
From our tens of projects implementations and working with different costumers our consultants have understood the recipe of culture change in customer’s IT that is crucial for successful cloud transformation. The customer’s IT team that is usually accustomed to maintaining monolith applications are enabled with cloud-native thinking and design. We help them realize how to capitalize on managed services, optimization for cloud costs, maximizing the potential opportunity of several cloud services like serverless computing and data and CI/CD automation.
Agile Methodology
Our project managers have seen the best agile practices recommended by top cloud vendors and industry leaders. Our methodology welcomes evolving requirements and learning by failing fast we are also very open to modifying our methodology according to the constraints of our customer's business. Our team, along with your IT team, has one goal and that is business outcome and customer experience. Agility is the mindset in which we thrive and all our designs and plans are adapted and adaptive to most recent business needs and outlooks. In other words, changing business requirements is an assumption for which we design, plan and develop while communicating extensively with your team
Services and offerings
Microservices
In our cloud-native app dev approach, we standardized the reusable functionalities as APIs. These APIs are energized into applications using microservices in an event-driven architecture. Such architecture leverages managed services from cloud companies like AWS to reduce the need for expensive DevOps talent in-house.
Containerization
Our cloud-native apps are easy to maintain and scale whenever needed, as we leverage AWS-managed services containerization like ECS / EKS / Fargate.
Server-less Infrastructure
AWS Lambda and serverless Databases reduce the infrastructure provisioning and optimization costs and also achieve flexibility of scale without frequent failure.
Cloud native databases
Our cloud-native architecture considers purpose-specific databases for information intensive apps. Other than SQL Server we extensively use NoSQL cloud databases like Aurora Postgres, OpenSearch, ElasticCache, Neptune, and DocumentDB.
DevOps automation
Our cloud-native apps come with DevOps automation through AWS Elastic BeanStalk / OpsWorks. For customers with bigger IT teams, we also provide DevOps capability through AWS CloudFormation and AWS CloudWatch with an option of 24/7 support.
Build
Enable automation for building, and testing new features using AWS build services
Deploy
Our deployment is automated with opensource or AWS deployment tools with an option of platform provisioning automation.
Manage
Our testing automation toolkit and testing teams help us provides state-of-the-art functional testing and this drives our release management and monitoring.
Services and offerings
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeStar
AWS Command Line Interface
AWS Cloud Development Kit
AWS Tools SDKs
AWS XRay
