Specializations
At Polymath Labs we specialize in writing high quality web application software, using effective technology, methodology, and architecture. While this means we can help with any kind of web application development, our main focus is cloud-native, serverless, and microservice development, because we believe these domains offer the most value in today’s digital ecosystem.
Cloud-Native Application Development
Cloud-Native Application Development
Cloud-native applications are designed to take full advantage of every benefit the cloud has to offer. While most applications developed for, or migrated to the cloud, focus on the elasticity offered by the cloud, coud-native applications focus on minimizing the development scope to only the business domain, and leverage cloud managed services, or third party APIs for everything else. This approach offers:
- Smaller footprint in the cloud as custom application code is only focused on the business domain
- Lower costs of operation due to the smaller footprint and lower demand for operational support beyond the business domai
- Industry strength capabilities such as authentication and logging through managed services
- Higher scalability, reliability, and performance due to the fact that all non-business domain functions execute in their own environments with separately and outsource scalability and reliability
Serverless Deployments
Serverless Deployments
Cloud computing introduced the premise of outsourced physical server management and a pay-per-use model. Organizations went from having to acquire, own, and maintain infrastructure, whether they used it or not, to only paying for it when they use it, fine-tuned to the minute. Serverless take this model to the next level by further abstracting the infrastructure and making it possible for organizations to only pay while their code is being executed, fine tuned to the second. With Serverless:
- You pay nothing while your application is not in use even though it is still available
- You need to have no knowledge of the infrastructure it is executing on
- Your application can scale to any demand, on-demand without provisioning or auto-provisioning of additional infrastructur
Microservice Architectures
Microservice Architectures
Imagine a large mission critical application, serving millions of users. Adding a simple enhancement to such an application requires testing a significant number of potentially impacted features, potential audit and compliance checks on the entire application, user acceptance testing, and finally a major deployment within a predetermined downtime window. Then, imagine such an enhancement introducing a memory leak that takes the entire application down. Microservice architectures dictate the breakdown of such large monolithic applications into a large number of smaller independent but related applications:
- Allowing a single team to own and be accountable for all aspects of a single microservice ensuring such teams can resolve any issue within their domain
- Allowing microservices to scale independently to their own needs
- Reducing time-to-market, a microservice is easier to build, enhance, test, and deploy
- Reducing the risk of negative impacts from a single component to the entire application
- Allowing multiple technologies to ensure each domain is free to leverage technologies best suited to that domain and team skills
Engagement Model
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Project Outsourcing
Project Outsourcing
When you outsource your project to us, we are accountable for every aspect of the delivery, which allows us to have the greatest impact. Our delivery model consists of assembling small high performing teams with the following structure:
- 2 to 3 full stack developers
- 1 to 2 functional testers
- 1 part-time project manager
- 1 part-time or full-time DevOps engineer
- 1 part-time solution architect
- 1 optional part-time or full-time graphic designer
It is possible to assemble hybrid teams, with client staff filling some of the above roles, allowing clients to have a more direct role in the journey, learn from us, and have an easier transition at the end of the project, but with the risk of lower efficiency.
Embedded Teams
Embedded Teams
Should you require additional capacity, but do not want or need to outsource the entire project, we can embed our staff within your team, giving you additional capacity and skills, while maintaining management control of the project. In this model, Polymath Labs offers:
- Work quality oversight from our office management, continuous training through internal training programs, and offers access to peer experts for problem solving
- Ensures staff works per client expectations
In this model, project and work management are the responsibility of the client while our experts execute.
Consulting
Consulting
In case you are looking for advice, we can offer our decades of experience in multiple domains, such as:
- Cloud, agile, or DevOps transformation
- Serverless or microservice transformation
- System integration
- Application Architecture Design or assessment
- Service Oriented Architecture transformation or assessment
- Enterprise architecture roadmapping, planning, or assessment
If you are exploring any of these topics, or any new related technology, reach out to us to learn about our fixed fee workshops, where we research the topic you are interested in and present to your stakeholders on-site.