SIM Boston 200924 TLS Pre-Meeting Survey

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* 1. Question 1: Where are you on the “Modern Software Delivery” maturity curve?

Legacy 1:
- Monolithic with large codebase, tightly coupled
- Waterfall Methodology with Ad Hoc Development Standards

Legacy 2
- N-tier architecture separating Front end UI, business logic, back end database
- Iterative Development with some Shared Design Patterns
- Manual Testing (mostly)

Near- Modern (definition)
- Componentized Architecture with everything needed to run an app in one place
- “Agile-light” Practices with some use of Frameworks & Pre-Built Platforms
- Some automated Testing

Modern (definition)
- Microservices with Containerization and a small codebase that is loosely coupled
- Optimized Agile Practices
- Frameworks & Pre-Built Platforms Fully Leveraged
-Fully Automated Testing with Continuous Integration & Deployment

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* 2. What is your most important reason for modernization of your applications?

Speed of Development

Agility (scalability and innovation)

Cost of Ownership

Other (please specify)

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* 3. How would you characterize your current use?

Hybrid environment (both on-premise private cloud and 1+ public clouds)

Public Cloud Only

Private Cloud Only

None (other than public SaaS subscriptions)

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* 4. Which cloud platform(s) does your organization use? (select all that apply)

AWS

Azure

Google

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What is your biggest challenge with modernizing your business using “the cloud”?

Security

Cost management

Lack of resources/expertise

Governance/Control