SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGNWeb Architecture
Design of GUI Application using Angular, React, Vue technologies. Porting existing web apps from PHP, UI5, JSP to Angular, React, Vue technologies.
Web Application technology changes quickly as new frameworks appear every week. Effective use of emerging technology becomes harder for development teams. A correct choice for a library or plugin today may decide the success or failure of a project in the future. To keep up with technology advancements and provide the best experience for your customers & users, we recommend periodic updates of project technology, and continuous quality assurance of your software solutions.
Typical software challenges in existing projects
- Monolithic frontend design that slows down development and time to market delay for new features
- Slower web reaction times for user input due to inefficient resource optimisation
- Problems with responsive display on various devices
- · No analytics to understand user behaviour
- Slower development of new features caused by old technology stack
- Security problems with user session management and bad authentication flows
- Low team productivity caused by technical debt
- No technical documentation for existing code slows team on-boarding and create risks when team grows or members rotate
- No UI tests for critical user flows
- No tools for guided user support in frontend
As a result, we prepared a number of solutions in the form of architecture services that we can provide for a software frontend project:
- Modularisation - Split of one frontend to smaller modules that could be managed separately
- Upgrade to newer technology stack – port to AngularJS or ReactJS from JSP, PHP, Struts, etc.
- Create missing documentation – includes functional specification, architecture high level design, technical design & specification for various domain modules, description of used APIs
- Security check for frontend app – APIs, proper role usage, cross site attacks, SSO flow check
- Enhanced user experience – check & update of user flows, extending solution with additional features like asynchronous messaging, check and fix for responsive rendering for all relevant devices, UX update to newer look & feel.
- Analytics Solution for Frontend – a complete solution to monitor and analyse traffic and business events on your frontend site in order to understand your user’s behavior. Software design for existing solution, integration design, help with setup and deployment in production.
- UI Test Automation – preparation of CI/CD UI automatic regression tests framework for critical areas of project functionality. Allows to incorporate UI Tests in existing project development flows
- Technical Event Monitoring – empowers support team to better and faster diagnose existing user issues in production and development environments
Typical software challenges for new projects
- Difficult estimation phase because of a new functional or technical project area
- Unclear scope – typical for startups
- No Architecture & Development standard for designers and programmers
- No tools for faster review cycle in interactive development
- No testing strategy for CI/CD automatic tests
If you encountered mentioned challenges don't hesitate to contact us.
Here some of the services that we provide to secure successful new project's outcome:
- Architecture design for new frontend application technical and functional modules
- Help with project estimations around technical and functional features
- Verification of functional roadmap against technical capabilities
- Security design for APIs, SSO flows & roles concept
- Setup of functional and technical tests for web apps
- Audit and tracing capabilities for security crucial features
For Who?
- Non-IT focused companies building software in house for their internal needs, such as financial services, energy, eCommerce sector, etc.
- SaaS companies building MVP or scaling existing MVP for wider audience
- Software product companies that would like to optimise architecture in internal product projects
- Software house companies that would like to optimise architecture of external customer projects done in house
- Software service companies that would like to strengthen their position in customer projects with external architecture services
- Software companies that want to have technical support at writing project offers
Industries
Our services are usable in many industries. However most of our experience has been gathered during projects in financial and insurance services. This makes Arch Forge Solutions better positioned for helping projects in those industries, as we can bring additional functional expertise besides our technical know-how.
Technology
Technologies & tools that we typically use in our web projects.
- NodeJS
- Angular
- ReactJS
- Vue.js
- Gatsby
- Strapi
- Joomla
- Laravel
- Yii
