From Monolith to Microservices: Empowering Scalability and Performance with Architecture Transformation

Business Opportunity

Modernizing Monolithic Applications

The client, a leading agribusiness company, operates with a workforce of approximately 23,000 employees across 300+ facilities in over 40 countries, driving innovation and sustainability in the global food supply chain. Their core application plays a crucial role in streamlining cargo voyage planning by enhancing transparency, accountability, and risk management. Used by logistics, trade, compliance, and financial risk teams, the application is vital for ensuring efficient global operations. To address evolving demands, the client aimed to modernize their legacy application technology by adopting cloud-agnostic and cloud-native services for greater flexibility and scalability. 

We enabled a comprehensive modernization of the client’s web-based application, breaking it down from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based infrastructure. Our work enabled them to support operations at scale while improving efficiency, reducing operational costs, and enabling seamless cloud scalability. Additionally, we implemented real-time release management to deliver faster, more reliable updates, ensuring an enhanced user experience.

The Challenge

• Complex application architecture: The legacy system’s intricate design made modernization difficult.
• Large volume of work: Managing and processing substantial workloads required a scalable solution.
• Tightly coupled modules: Interdependencies between components created challenges for updates and adaptability.

Our Solution

The solution involved a comprehensive modernization of the client’s existing web-based application, transitioning it from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based structure. This transformation enhanced scalability, resilience, maintenance, and high availability. The front end was revamped using ReactJS, improving user experience and performance, while the back end was restructured with Spring Boot-based microservices to ensure modularity and scalability. Additionally, the database was migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL on AlloyDB, optimizing performance and reducing costs. The modernized application was deployed on the Google Cloud Platform, enabling better scalability, cost optimization, and lower operational overhead.

Benefits of Niveus’ App Modernization

• Scalability: The adoption of Niveus’ microservices architecture allows for better scalability, enabling the application to handle increasing workloads and traffic without compromising performance.
• Improved Resilience: By decoupling components, we enhance system resilience, ensuring that failures in one module don’t affect the entire application, leading to higher uptime and reliability.
• Easier Maintenance: With our modular microservices, maintaining and updating individual components becomes more straightforward, reducing the complexity and time required for updates.
• Faster Time to Market: We implement real-time release management and automated deployment processes to allow for quicker updates and faster delivery of new features, thereby improving user experience.

Results

• Reduced Response Times: We reduced API response time on average for all APIs by an average of 5.26 Seconds, ensuring faster response times.
• Seamless Migration of Data: We migrated 1000+ GB worth of data, including 111 tables and 108 audit tables.
• Data Integrity for 12M Records: We enabled the migration of 12 million records seamlessly, maintaining data integrity.
• Improved Scalability and Efficiency: The modernization enabled the client to support operations at scale. 
• Enabled Cost Reduction: We helped the client reduce operational overhead through cost optimization with modernization and cloud-native technologies.
• Elevated Cloud Scalability: We enabled seamless scalability with a cloud-agnostic infrastructure, providing flexibility across platforms.
• Implemented Faster, More Reliable Updates: We implemented real-time release management, ensuring quicker and more dependable updates.
• Enhanced User Experience: We delivered improved performance and a smoother user experience with faster response times and more efficient application functionality.

Power of Partnership

Niveus Solutions brought the perfect blend of expertise, agility, and innovation to this transformation journey, acting as the crucial factor for the client’s success. Our team’s ability to deeply understand the challenges of legacy systems allowed us to craft a tailored solution that addressed both immediate needs and future scalability. By leveraging cutting-edge cloud-native technologies and adopting a microservices approach, we delivered a seamless modernization that enhanced performance, reduced costs, and ensured operational resilience. Niveus’ commitment to delivering fast and reliable solutions, combined with a partnership-first mindset, made all the difference in unlocking the true potential of the client’s digital transformation.