Application Modernization Insights & Guides

Modernizing legacy applications can improve scalability, resilience, security, and development velocity while reducing the operational burden of maintaining aging systems. The right approach focuses modernization effort where it creates meaningful technical and business value.

The articles below explore practical application modernization strategies, including containerization, cloud-native architecture, managed services, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and selective refactoring. You’ll find guidance on deciding what to modernize, choosing the right technical approach, and improving how applications are built, deployed, and operated.

Stratus10 helps organizations modernize applications on AWS using pragmatic approaches that balance technical improvement with cost, risk, and business priorities.

No Servers Needed: Host a Static Website with Amazon S3 and CloudFront

Hosting a website typically requires having a server to host it on, and if you need your website to handle a lot of traffic you will need multiple servers. However, if you have a static HTML website that does not require any data storage or dynamic content you can host it on Amazon S3 without having to pay for, or worry about, having any servers. In addition, you can use AWS’ Content Delivery Network, CloudFront, to make sure your website can handle a lot of traffic.

Kubernetes Best Practices: 7 Practical Guidelines for Production Clusters

Kubernetes is the default choice for running containers in production. That part isn’t debatable anymore.

What is debatable is how well most teams implement it.

Kubernetes gives you a lot of power. It also gives you a lot of rope. The difference between a clean, stable cluster and a fragile one usually comes down to a handful of operational decisions made early on.

Here are 7 Kubernetes best practices that tend to hold up in real environments.
 

App modernization: It’s a lot easier than you might think

Contrary to popular belief, application modernization is not the daunting task that it once was. Thanks to a variety of newly advanced services and tools available today, modernizing your applications utilizing containers and serverless infrastructure can be quick, easy, and stress-free. And by taking advantage of cloud migration and modernization tools, companies such as DraftKings, FileForce, and Expedia are experiencing lower costs and higher profits.   
 

Enhance EdTech + eLearning with Specialized ML and Data Science

Cloud Computing and AI/ML for Enhancements in Education


AWS machine learning and other AI services enable a variety of features in the modern edtech ecosystem. Educators can customize each user’s path through coursework, predict when knowledge gaps may occur, seamlessly scale content to millions of users; and beyond. By focusing on improving the learning experience and driving data-backed decisions with AWS, Edtech is better prepared to improve learning for all.    
 

Containers from Deployment to Management

Introduction


Modernizing applications yields a range of benefits for organizations looking for infrastructure that is built to last. Containerization allows you to be more flexible in the delivery and deployment of applications and optimizes costs. Adding a proper Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline into the mix allows for better management and automated workflows for a containerized application.   
 

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