“’Whenever there was a change in the code to meet our current or future needs, it would take on a life of its own,’ [the Food and Drug Administration’s CTO Sohail Chaudhry] recalls.
‘We conducted this journey of implementing a more automated infrastructure architecture to resolve the challenges of maintaining and scaling the vast application stack that we have and move toward an agile development methodology. That really starts with microservices.’…”
“Microservices, which are deployed in containers, are essential to a cloud-native application architecture, and they have quickly become a key component of many organizations’ digital transformation efforts, both in government and across industry.
By adopting microservices, agencies can update code more easily, teams can use different stacks (and even different programming languages) for different application components, and pieces of an application can be scaled independently, which helps reduce waste and cost…”
“The FDA is moving to software-defined networking to help pave the path for microservices. ‘When it came to the network, it was important for us to remove as many manual processes as possible,’ Chaudhry says.
The Department of Veterans Affairs developed VA Platform One, or VAPO, a new service designed to standardize the use of containers and eventually microservices as well as help the department optimize for the cloud…” Read the full article here.
Source: Microservices Help Agencies Streamline Management and Speed Product Delivery – By Calvin Hennick, February 23, 2022. FedTech Magazine.
