Future-Proofing an established Marine ERP through microservice architecture

Overview

One of our clients specializes in providing technology services to the maritime and education industries. The company’s flagship solution is an ERP software platform that drives the marine operations of numerous enterprises – both small and large. The goal was to future-proof the product with new and improved functionality.

The Business Need

• Ability to sell subsets of the product
• Deploy and upgrade modules independently
• Scale services independently
• Resilience and Highly Available

Challenges

• Understanding the system and how to divide it
• Integration between modules/microservices
• Breaking the foreign key
• Managing the database and maintaining consistency
• User accessibility

Solution

• Domain-driven design
• Clearly defined sync/async operations
• Handled database relations and ensured long-term consistency
• Introduced API Gateway
• IDP (Identity Provider)

Business Benefits

• Expanded the business via modularity
• Unparalleled resilience
• Simplified deployment and upgrade process
• Enhanced scalability and performance
• Minimum change to client side code-base
• Improved team communications