Report:
Overview
This assessment item requires you to produce a short report for some of the Technical and Development staff of Regional Gardens.
Task
Regional Gardens is starting to migrate some of its applications and services to a public cloud. Many of the technical staff have had no experience in the Cloud and are concerned about this process. You have recommended to Regional Gardens management that they should consider the use of microservices as part of their application architecture. Regional Gardens now want you to redesign one of their monolithic applications as a microservice application
Regional Gardens has an old and image processing application. This is used by a number of Regional Gardens customers to upload images of existing gardens to be used for garden redesign. Regional Gardens create the new design for each customer and supply it to them when complete. The application has a number of modules as shown in Figure 1, below. Some of these modules may not need any development work done on them for long periods of time as their functions and outputs are relatively stable. Other modules though can be modified quite frequently as changes occur in the Industry. Other modules experience great peaks in workload which often slows services to Regional Gardens customers.
1. You are to assess each of the modules shown in Figure 1 above, and determine:
- Which modules are likely to be relatively stable, a together with the reasons for this categorisation,
- Which modules are likely to require frequent modification, together with the reasons for this categorisation,
- Which modules are likely to experience workload peaks, together with the reasons for this categorisation.
2. Regional Gardens wants to transition to a microservice approach with the Image Processing Application. But they want to move in a phased approach so that they can handle the workload peaks first.
- Which modules should be refactored first?
- Discuss how a move to a microservice approach for these modules would resolve issues around workload peaks?
3. Discuss how a move to a microservice approach will improve Regional Gardens’ ability to maintain high availability for this application.
4. Draw a diagram that shows the architecture of the Image Processing Application after the transition to a microservice approach.
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcomes:
- Be able to compare and evaluate the ability of different cloud computing architectures to meet a set of given business requirements.
- be able to evaluate a set of business requirements to determine suitability for a cloud computing delivery model.
- be able to identify and design an ICT Risk Management strategy for a cloud computing delivery plan to meet business requirements.
- be able to critically analyse business requirements to plan a migration to a cloud model.
- REFERENCE-APA7th edition and Text citations needed