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Modernizing Mission Critical Apps with VMware Tanzu: A VMware IT Case Study
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Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Glass
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Tamper Detection
- Traffic Monitoring
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
VMware was undergoing a significant digital transformation to support its business model transition from perpetual-license software to subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS). The VMware IT team was tasked with delivering new capabilities in an accelerated timeframe while improving performance, resiliency, and user experience. One of the apps modernized was VMware Customer Connect, a self-service portal accessed by millions of users each month. Since its launch a decade ago, the portal experienced exponential growth in traffic, leading to scalability and performance issues, outages, and latency. Its legacy codebase and monolithic architecture made it difficult to build and deliver new features. To enhance the platform’s performance and security in the short term, VMware added third-party software tools. However, a lack of integration and other inconsistencies added to the platform's complexity.
The Customer
VMware, Inc.
About The Customer
VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology, accelerating digital transformation for evolving IT environments. The company's software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace. One of the apps modernized was VMware Customer Connect, a self-service portal that millions of users access each month to evaluate products, download software binaries, manage software licenses, request support, and conduct account management. The portal is crucial for VMware's customer service and experience, and its performance directly impacts the company's reputation and customer satisfaction.
The Solution
VMware IT’s architecture team evaluated VMware Tanzu, a suite of products and solutions for building and running modern apps. It enables developers to deploy modern apps faster into a stable, scalable runtime environment and helps operations teams handle change requests related to design, log aggregation, and configuration monitoring more efficiently. VMware IT rearchitected VMware Customer Connect with lightweight microservices, built and delivered using the Spring Boot open source Java framework and VMware Tanzu Application Service. A single-page application framework using open source, Clarity-based UI design was used to improve navigation for end users of the portal, while leveraging microservices hosted on VMware datacenters to achieve higher resiliency. By adopting an event-driven architecture and decoupling services to operate independently, the VMware Customer Connect team was able to accelerate the delivery of new features, strengthen resiliency, and improve performance and response times.
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