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Less than two years remain for healthcare payors to fully comply with CMS-0057-F (CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule). Impressive title aside, this requires the development or improvement of Patient Access APIs. This guide covers everything you need to know about the topic.

Why would you want to import existing cloud resources into Terraform? Well, there are many reasons. I once joined as a Lead DevOps Engineer on a healthcare project developed outside the US. Since 2018, multiple teams have supported the project, fueled by coffee and bad decisions. Eventually, the founders sold the startup to a new owner and drove their Tesla Roadsters off into the sunset. 

When businesses ask themselves, “What is important for a successful DevOps transformation?”, the first thing that comes to mind is adopting new technologies. Yet, despite experimenting with new tech, only 11% of teams are DevOps high-performers, according to the latest DORA research.

Why move to microservices? You’ve probably heard this question when discussing your IT budgets. After all, businesses need to scale rapidly to stay competitive. But are the benefits of microservices enough to outweigh the costs of app modernization?

Cloud costs can be unpredictable, volatile, and hard to understand. Engineers at Adobe once burned through $80,000 of cash in a single day on Microsoft Azure. Five years ago, another SaaS company was overpaying AWS “just” $14,000 a month. Intervention from our DevOps team saved them over $840,000!

Poor quality of software products costs American companies more than $2 trillion a year. You don’t have to put much effort into finding examples – just take a look at Bó, the digital bank developed by the high street lender RBS to compete with banks like Monzo and Starling. It was supposed to become a major mobile banking player, providing budgeting and security features.

Modern software development can be labeled anything, but definitely not a cakewalk. To ensure effective collaboration of all participants and build advanced solutions, companies apply various software development approaches, and one of them is Lean. It was developed as an effective anti-crisis solution, and it’s not surprising that it is in high demand now.

There is no single blueprint for businesses to follow in order to adapt to the digital age. But even though each industry is moving at different paths and paces while undergoing digital transformation, they have one thing in common: they are all adopting modern digital technologies.

Most companies look into software architecture consulting services when their products are two steps away from requiring intensive care. Huge infrastructure costs, compliance and security threats, poor performance, and scalability are common symptoms of a faulty architecture.

Long gone are the days when companies could produce an innovative feature and reap the benefits for years to come. Now they have to experiment at a breakneck pace to stay competitive. Even a few years ago Amazon deployed software every 11.6 seconds. DevOps is the approach that makes this speed possible.

Companies that use monolithic, on-premise legacy applications face challenges supporting them. Limited innovation possibilities and the inability to improve everyday operations are just some common issues that businesses face when they continue to use outdated software. And it’s not to mention that legacy systems are expensive to maintain, which makes them uncompetitive today.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “if you fail to plan you are planning to fail”. But what plan does software development need? How to make a plan that will direct your workflows in the right direction? This is where the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) comes into play. SDLC makes the development process consistent and simplifies the technical support of IT projects.