The Need for Continuous Cloud Application Optimization

Modernization: The Need for Continuous Application Optimization in the Cloud Application

Business apps, like businesses themselves, must adapt to new challenges and possibilities. That evolution usually entails migrating some or all of your IT infrastructure to the cloud in today’s world. ​

While the advantages can be significant, it’s vital to remember that cloud adoption and optimization is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s a never-ending procedure that demands entire dedication. Quantitative measurements across the stack to deal with the increasing complexity of your cloud systems and guarantee you’re receiving the results you want.

What does modernity imply?

The majority of companies employ one or more of the following cloud adoption strategies:

1. Rehosting (also known as “lift-and-shift”) is migrating your on-premise applications to the cloud with as little disruption as possible. 
2. Changing one or more components of your apps to reach a better level of cloud optimization is known as re-platforming. 
3. Making significant code and architecture changes to achieve maximum cloud-native benefits is known as refactoring. 

Modernization, which is modernizing and optimizing your applications and their underlying infrastructure and services, includes rehosting, re-platforming, and refactoring. Modernization is the key to maximizing the long-term value and benefits of hosting your apps and IT infrastructure in the cloud. Increased team and IT agility in development, operations, and change management are longer-term transformative benefits. Additionally, technology-driven business prospects such as new business models, new income streams, enhanced consumer engagement and delight, and cost savings accelerate.

To fully benefit from all that the cloud offers, you must establish a culture of continuous modernization and dedication to it. That includes keeping an eye on your cloud applications, infrastructure, and services to make sure they’re meeting your business and IT objectives. Depending on technical opportunities, business demands, customer requests, and other factors, applications may undergo a variety of modernization efforts throughout time.

Why do you think it’s essential to keep up with the times?

The goal of modernization is to turn your legacy monolithic applications into something more agile, elastic, and available. When our customers modernize their applications, they frequently update their businesses in the same way.

Continuous modernization is well worth the effort, as seen by some of the results our customers have shared with us:

• In one example, many businesses have claimed cloud cost savings of 40%, 50%, and even 97%! 
• Time-to-response for applications is up to 10 times faster. 
• Reduced deployment cycles from 6 to 8 weeks to just one week. 
• The rate of code deployment has increased to 80-100 times per day. 

Modernization is a significant technological and cultural transition. Despite this, many customers tell us that they cannot reap the full benefits of cloud computing as rapidly as they would like.

It’s critical to remember that going to the cloud is just beginning a modernization process. Even if your application operates as well as it did on-premises in the cloud, you’re probably not receiving the full benefits of cloud computing.

If any of the following significant triggers are present in your organization, it may be time to take modernization steps:

• You’re spending the same amount of money in the cloud as on-premise.
• Your applications aren’t scaling up to meet demand on your busiest days.
  
• Your competitors are growing faster than you or snatching your market share.
  
• Customers expect more features than you can currently deliver.
• You haven’t yet succeeded in establishing a thriving DevOps culture. 
• Reliability, performance, availability, security, and other issues are still a problem. 

Keep track of your application and overall cloud spending, and seek methods to save costs.

The ability to observe is essential for successful modernization.
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More than 15,400 clients now operate their applications wholly in the cloud or a hybrid cloud environment that combines cloud and on-premise deployments.

Keep track of the KPIs that matter most to your company.
Businesses find continual value in the observability to upgrade and improve their applications to get the cloud’s optimum benefits once their apps are running in the cloud. Can launch new services and income opportunities faster. Company agility also drives near-instant scalability for both planned and unplanned demand increases. The most prevalent benefits are continuously monitoring and tuning to improve user experience.

The antidote to complexity is observability.
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Teams can update their monolithic apps by breaking them down into more minor services that can be maintained and deployed separately; these microservices are easier to manage and can be reused to help speed up development. Teams can also make their applications more portable and scalable by using modern technologies like Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to use containers (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes); AWS Lambda; Amazon EC2; elastic Relational Database Services (RDS) and elastic databases like Amazon Aurora; and application load balancers like Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Teams also embrace self-healing technology by implementing autoscaling groups to scale up instances. When something goes wrong quickly, or demand increases (or down when demand decreases), multiple availability zones in various regions create redundant architectures that are more resilient against vendor-system outages.

While these modern agile application development and operations methods can help businesses compete more effectively and produce new and enhanced revenue streams, they also add complexity to the equation, making your monitoring strategy even more critical. Many separate connected elements make up today’s applications. And you may not be able to predict how the entire system will act until it’s in production.

Simply responding to an alarm isn’t enough in this situation. It would be beneficial to regularly examine application behavior, particularly during change events such as deployments, to monitor application and network performance and stability. Speed, size, and strength must all be optimized regularly.

About Enteros

Enteros offers a patented database performance management SaaS platform. It proactively identifies root causes of complex business-impacting database scalability and performance issues across a growing number of RDBMS, NoSQL, and machine learning database platforms.