STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS
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Cloud Migration Strategy: Rehost, Replatform, Rearchitect
A recent project at Webapper brought us back to three cornerstones of cloud migration strategy: rehost, replatform, rearchitect. In the near term, the goal is to rehost the application, a lift-and-shift migration to improve performance and set the stage for long-term, sustainable growth. But the roadmap is never a straight line...
Understanding the State of ColdFusion
We've had time to read through the results of the annual "State of ColdFusion" survey from TeraTech. It's a community-driven survey that tries to collect the sentiment of the ColdFusion community to identify trends. We wanted to share five key takeaways regarding the state of ColdFusion in 2021.
Strangler Pattern
Webapper's CEO Patrick Quinn recently appeared on the Founders Focus podcast, where he spent some time describing "The Strangler Pattern". It's a technique we fully embrace at Webapper in our quest to migrate applications to cloud native architectures.
SaaS Monetization Primer
SaaS monetization is the process of deriving revenue from the value you offer from your software solution to your users. If you can’t monetize your SaaS application, then your development effort could end up as a life lesson instead of a fat bank account. And with the challenges of small budgets and slow revenue growth, it’s critical that SaaS companies deliver software that matchese evolving market landscapes.
AWS Lambdas Rock
As Webapper builds a growing portfolio of serverless applications -- FaaS, as we've outlined before -- we are continually embracing AWS Lambdas. We'll share some of our thoughts and experiences on AWS Lambdas so you can see if they fit for your cloud application development projects.
Founders Focus Meets Webapper
Scott Case of Founders Focus recently interviewed Patrick Quinn, the co-founder and CEO of Webapper. They discuss how entrepreneurs can take advantage of the cloud, no matter what they're doing.
Making the Case for Functions as a Service
In Functions as a Service architecture, all features of an application are deployed and hosted as individual, solo features. As a result, FaaS is a dynamic, fluid, cost-optimized model for modern application development.
Automated Testing with Selenium
The more likely you are to author tests, the better your results... Automation is the best way to increase test coverage, execution speed, and efficacy in software testing. Automated testing eliminates the tedium of manual, error-prone tests and facilitates unattended (e.g., overnight) testing. Automated testing is an important element in your CI/CD process, and Selenium is a powerful platform for it.
The Increasing Importance of Software Testing
Quality Assurance (QA) directly affects customer experience. It's becoming more important to shift left -- moving testing earlier in the software development process to save time down the road. The importance of software testing cannot be understated. Technology issues can paralyze customers, so having smart processes in place for issue detection and remedy is not optional anymore.
Microservices vs. Monolithic Architecture
A microservices architecture addresses the challenges of developing complex software. Switching away from monolithic architectures has made work easier for developers. They are no longer forced to maintain large codebases, and microservices enable them to focus on smaller scoping within projects.
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