Both migrating and modernizing application platforms must be large and complex effort. A cloud-first framework helps with a strategy and involves building cloud native microservices, extending with new services, and migrating unchanged applications, and adopting standardized operations. Refactoring helps to decreased development as a monolith and increase development as microservices. Curated development tools and practice help making the transition smoother.

Standard open technologies definitely finds favors with application modernization as compared to proprietary ones. These include integrated collections, integrated developer tools and, integrated DevOps toolchain which facilitate a fast incremental, intelligent, end-to-end development experience.

The OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms definitely gained popularity for virtual machines and containers and are well-recognized today but integrated developer tools, cloud-native frameworks and integrated open-source collections along with industry standard development environments and DevOps toolchains gained acceptance as a standard mostly due to developer patronization.

Developers use these to expose APIs that are easily reused for building new capabilities that augment the existing application. Then those APIs can be integrated into future ecosystems. Exposing existing value as REST APIs for easy access over the internet, placing APIs under the management control to improve security, performance and visibility and leveraging new applications that can build on freshly exposed APIs from existing applications without requiring changes to existing applications help to unlock business value from existing systems. Simplifying the management of the integration architecture and reducing its cost with API lifecycle, App/data integration and messaging sets the stage for the future of the application.

As methods to develop, test and release new functions become more agile, service management must also transform to support this paradigm shift. The cloud operations can be reinvented by building to manage with service level objectives, monitoring and logging, and using tools and automation for communication and collaboration.

All the stages of the modernization journey such as assessment, strategy, and planning to review applications, application mining to gain insights, application discovery to capture information for preparation, application modernization involving conversion of legacy code to current languages, legacy DevOps to streamline code change lifecycle, application transformation to refactor legacy code with a fully automated, low-risk migration solution, selecting a hybrid cloud architecture and deployment to construct a hybrid cloud platform help to design a pathway to gain dominance over the new landscape and times.

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