Taking Flight: Microservices Modernize Australian Airline's IT

Challenges.

• Legacy Technology stack:  The application was built on Oracle UCM, SOA services for integration with external system. Hosting on existing On-premise environment resulted to additional cost for procurement of tools, hardware and licenses, and hindered support for new business requirements and features
• Monolithic System Bottleneck: The airline relied on a single, complex IT system hosted on customer’s on-premise environment and was experienced limiting scalability, reduced user experience, and hindering rapid application development.
• Deployment Delays: The monolithic structure caused lengthy deployment cycles for new features and updates.
• Limited Innovation: Integrating new technologies and features within the existing system proved challenging. 

Solution.

The application designed over cloud provided agility and a flexible architecture that was able to adopt new market technologies like AEM, Java, Spring Boot, AEM, Gitlab CI/CD, APIGee. 

• Microservices Architecture Design: Coforge designed and implemented a microservices architecture, breaking down the monolithic system into smaller, independent services with well-defined APIs. Technologies involved React, Java Spring-boot based microservices
• Containerization: Leveraging containerization technologies like Docker, Coforge ensured efficient deployment and scalability of microservices. 
• Agile Development: Coforge introduced Agile development methodologies to streamline development processes and accelerate deployments.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Coforge implemented a CI/CD pipeline for automated testing and deployment of microservices, further enhancing agility.
• AWS Native services: A complete rearchitect of the existing application was done in 3 phases with AWS services (AWS EC2, AWS ECS, Fargate, EC2, RDS, S3, Direct Connect, Route53)  

The Impact.