Standards & Membership
Global Standards organization increases business agility
Existing applications supporting the business were built on monolith architecture with high technical debt. Iris transformed over 15 years old monolith applications into microservices with automated integration and cloud deployment to deliver faster MVPs.
Client
A non-profit global organization responsible for developing and maintaining standards, including barcodes with over 115 local member organizations and over 2 million user companies
Business Drivers
To deliver MVPs in shorter cycles, reduce Mean Time for Ticket Resolution (MTTR), and lower the total cost of ownership
Tools and technologies
C#/.NET Core, Python/DJango, NodeJS/Express, Azure WAF, Azure APIM, App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Application Insights
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
SOLUTION
Azure cloud offered some of the foundational features like container orchestration, app engine, integration, API gateway, monitoring and others, making cloud-specific modernization a natural choice.
Modernization strategy involved reverse engineering of on-premise applications, domain-specific grouping the product backlogs by, adopting domain-driven design, and using open source cloud-friendly software with CI/CD pipeline. We transformed the applications to a .NET core framework using cloud-native design principles on Azure cloud. The solution was developed using Azure App Services, front door and service bus following the agile development approach with two-week sprints.
OUTCOMES
Iris helped the client realize multiple business benefits, including higher agility, resiliency and cost-efficient IT operations. Key outcomes of this cloud modernization engagement are:
- Reduction in Mean Time for Ticket Resolution (MTTR) by 30%
- Increase in application and infrastructure uptime to 99.9%
- Real-time visibility of application and infra metrics
- Enabled bi-weekly MVP delivery
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Client
One of the world’s leading retail standards organizations.
Goal
Build a 24x7 cloud-based platform capable of storing and sharing data on billions of products.
Tools and technologies
Java, Python, NodeJS, .NET, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Azure DevOps, Pipelines, Git, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure App Service.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Our client is a global standards organization. Its products and codes are used by millions of brand owners, retailers and supply chain partners around the world.
The organization needed an always-on, scalable cloud-based platform capable of storing and sharing data on billions of products and related information with members and partners across the world.
The client also wanted the ability to onboard member organizations quickly and seamlessly.
They wanted the business capabilities developed on a platform to be available as modern and secure enterprise-level APIs.
SOLUTION
We chose a microservices architecture for high agility, loose coupling, independent deployability and maintainability.
We followed an API design-first approach and designed according to the standards-based API specification (OpenAPI Specification).
In line with best practices for securely publishing and maintaining APIs, our team deployed the Azure API management solution. We used Azure APIM developer portal to deliver a superior developer onboarding experience. The solution had other features as well:
- Design and implementation of the Azure Virtual network for securely hosting the platform.
- A cloud-native architecture using the Azure AppService and an Azure-managed Kubernetes platform.
- Comprehensive performance testing and optimization at all levels to meet strict SLAs.
- Security testing and vulnerability assessment to ensure secure APIs.
OUTCOMES
- A robust and secure API platform that handles 200,000 API requests per day
- 50 million codes uploaded in 40 product categories across more than 130 countries
- Delivered a developer portal for quick onboarding of application developers
- New 7-step verification mechanism led to the creation of new revenue streams
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