Keyhole Software played a crucial role in driving a comprehensive enterprise transformation at a government entity responsible for the oversight of agriculture and related programs. The highly-skilled Keyhole team focused on architectural enhancements, containerization, modernization, and the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to elevate the development practices.
Key Achievements
Containerization and Cloud Migration:
Led by an expert Keyhole Software architect, the government entity witnessed its first containerization efforts. The team centered its work around Docker and AWS ECS, marking a significant step towards a cloud-native future.
The project not only included containerizing applications but also introduced a new application deployment model, emphasizing health checks and centralized logging. This laid the foundation for the organization’s migration from on-premises hosting to the cloud.
Single-Page Application (SPA) Modernization:
Another critical focus area was modernizing the single-page application architecture serving approximately 300-400 developers across 75+ teams.
Leveraging technologies such as Webpack, Jest, Angular (v7), and Node.js, the team established a common hierarchy of npm modules. This streamlined build processes, resulting in smaller application bundles, faster builds and tests, and enhanced developer ergonomics. Collaboration with UI/UX Architects improved the end-user experience by incorporating the Enterprise Visual Design System, reducing page startup time, and simplifying package management.
Commodity Market Pricing Application:
The team, working in collaboration with an enterprise architecture team, prototyped a groundbreaking, next-generation application for managing daily commodity market pricing.
This single-page application utilized Angular and LeafletJs, communicating through a Spring-based Java middle-tier driven by modularized APIs. The project included the implementation of an API documentation strategy using OpenAPI (Swagger).
Innovation Team Leadership and DevOps Adoption:
A visionary lead architect within the newly formed Business Center Branch assumed responsibility for identifying technology direction and enterprise architectural needs. This involved spearheading the discovery, adoption, and rollout of new technologies, development standards, and architectural patterns across the enterprise.
The team, under Keyhole’s leadership, played a key role in decision-making regarding the adoption of a DevOps development culture and the migration from on-prem to Cloud-based hosting. CI/CD pipelines critical for application delivery were designed, administered, and maintained, contributing to efficient development practices.
Enterprise Shared Services Solutions Architect:
As the Enterprise Shared Services Solutions Architect, the focus was on introducing technologies, patterns, and practices to be utilized across the enterprise. This effort included designing and implementing frameworks to facilitate adoption in existing and new application development. The team, under Keyhole’s guidance, built and delivered sample reference applications (Angular front-end and Java back-end) to showcase organization best practices. The project encompassed technical documentation and training materials, emphasizing the importance of knowledge transfer and skill development across the development teams.
Conclusion:
The Enterprise Transformation project, led by Keyhole Software, successfully drove architectural advancements, containerization, SPA modernization, and the adoption of new technologies. The collaborative efforts of the expert team significantly contributed to the client’s journey toward a more efficient, scalable, and modernized enterprise architecture.
