A Business Guide to Legacy Application Modernization For The Cloud Era

A legacy application is one that was developed with older technologies, using outdated development paradigms.

Some organisations are saddled with legacy applications that will need to be modernized before they can take advantage of the benefits of the digital transformation brought about by the cloud. Digital transformation has only been sped up by the Covid-19 pandemic and the customised digital experiences pioneered by the likes of Amazon and Netflix. Is your organisation ready to keep up?

In this guide, we provide key guidelines for modernizing applications for the cloud native era.

We cover:

• Characteristics of legacy applications
• Evaluating your legacy application
• Legacy application modernization
• Frameworks for modernization

Including notes on technical debt, microservices and monoliths, onboarding new developers and more – a must-read for CTOs, Dev Leads and Ops Managers.