Overview
The Cloud Native Design Accelerator is a strategic engagement designed to provide your organization with a clear architectural roadmap, defined project scope, and actionable plan for your cloud native initiatives. Whether you are migrating a legacy monolith or building a greenfield microservices application, this accelerator ensures your foundation is built on best practices for scalability, resilience, and security.
Goal: To align your business requirements with technical realities, mitigating risk and accelerating your time-to-market.
Content
Our senior cloud architects engage directly with your engineering and product teams to deconstruct your specific use case. We move beyond theory to analyze your current technology stack, team capabilities, and business constraints. The sessions are highly interactive, focusing on validating your architectural decisions against industry standards (CNCF) and identifying the optimal path forward for your specific context.
We do not just design for “day one” deployment, but for “day two” operations, ensuring observability, maintainability, and cost-efficiency are baked into the design from the start.
Typical Activities
During this engagement, we will collaborate on the following key activities:
- Current State Analysis: Review of existing infrastructure, application architecture, and deployment workflows (CI/CD).
- Requirement Alignment: Mapping business goals (e.g., “99.99% availability,” “global scaling”) to technical requirements.
- Architecture Design Session: Whiteboarding the proposed cloud native architecture, including:
- Container orchestration strategy (Kubernetes/Serverless).
- Microservices boundaries and communication patterns (Service Mesh, gRPC, REST).
- Data persistence and state management.
- Security posture (Identity management, network policies, secrets management).
- Gap Analysis: Identification of technical debt, tooling gaps, and potential skill shortages within the team.
- Tool Selection: Recommendations for the cloud native landscape (Ingress controllers, Observability stacks, GitOps tools).
Deliverables
At the conclusion of the accelerator, you will receive a comprehensive Cloud Native Design Package containing:
- High-Level Architecture Blueprint: Written definition of the proposed system architecture.
- Cost estimation: A rough cost estimate for the implementation of the blueprint
Duration
2 Days
Prerequisites
To maximize the value of this accelerator, the following is required:
- Stakeholder Availability: Participation from Lead Architects, DevOps Leads, and Product Owners.
- Access to Documentation: Existing architecture diagrams, infrastructure code (Terraform/Ansible), and deployment manifests.
- Basic Knowledge: Participants should have a foundational understanding of containers (Docker), basic networking concepts, and the goals of the project.
Why this Accelerator?
- De-risk your Project: Identify architectural flaws before writing a single line of code.
- Accelerate Adoption: Skip months of research and trial-and-error by leveraging proven patterns.
- Cost Predictability: Get a clearer understanding of the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for your cloud native platform.