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Application Development: Accelerate the Creation of Cloud-Native Applications

In a market that demands continuous and rapid innovation, the ability to quickly develop, deploy, and iterate on applications is a critical competitive advantage. Modern application development, especially in a cloud-native context, requires tools that not only speed up coding but also ensure quality, security, and scalability from day one.

The Challenges of Modern Application Development​

Development teams often face obstacles that slow down the entire software lifecycle and compromise the final quality of the product:

  • Repetitive and Low-Value Work: Developers spend a significant amount of time writing boilerplate code for common functionalities like creating REST APIs for data, managing authentication, or orchestrating processes, instead of focusing on the unique business logic that creates value.
  • Complex Frontend Development: Building modern, modular, and consistent user interfaces is complex. Integrating different frontend components and ensuring a seamless user experience requires specialized skills and significant effort.
  • Integration with Legacy Systems: Many organizations rely on existing systems. Exposing data from these systems through modern and secure APIs is often a complex and time-consuming process.
  • Managing Complex Distributed Transactions: In a microservices architecture, ensuring data consistency across multiple services during a business process (like an e-commerce order) is a major challenge that, if not handled correctly, can lead to data corruption.
  • Lack of Secure and Standardized Exposure: Exposing APIs securely, managing traffic, and applying consistent authentication and authorization policies for each new service is a repetitive and error-prone task.

The Mia-Platform Solution: a Composition-based Approach​

Mia-Platform Console provides a suite of tools and ready-to-use building blocks that enable an approach based on composability and reuse. Instead of building everything from scratch, developers can assemble applications using pre-built, secure, and scalable components, drastically accelerating the time-to-market.

Accelerate Frontend Development with Microfrontend Composer​

The Microfrontend Composer is a powerful tool for creating modern user interfaces in a no-code/low-code fashion. Developers can:

  • Visually Compose Pages: Assemble complex pages by dragging and dropping components from the Back-kit library, which includes tables, forms, buttons, and charts.
  • Integrate Any Microfrontend: Incorporate microfrontends built with any technology (React, Angular, Vue) or even legacy applications via iFrame, creating a consistent and integrated user experience.
  • Build Custom Backoffices in Minutes: Create data management interfaces and internal tools quickly, connecting them directly to your data sources.

Create REST APIs on Your Data in Minutes​

With Mia-Platform, you don't need to write code to create CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) APIs on your data.

  • CRUD Service: A ready-to-use plugin that automatically exposes REST APIs on any MongoDB collection. Simply define your data model in the Console, and the service will handle the API creation, including pagination, filtering, and sorting.
  • Database and Legacy System Integration: Connect to existing databases or legacy systems and use the CRUD Service to expose their data through a modern and secure API layer, without modifying the original systems.

Orchestrate Complex Processes with the Flow Manager​

For managing distributed transactions and complex business processes, Mia-Platform offers the Flow Manager Service.

  • Saga Pattern Orchestration: Visually design and manage complex sagas that coordinate multiple microservices. The Flow Manager handles state management, error handling, and compensation logic, ensuring data consistency even in the event of failures.
  • Decouple Your Microservices: Avoid direct and fragile communication between services. The Flow Manager acts as a central orchestrator, making the architecture more resilient and easier to maintain.

Secure and Govern Your APIs with an API Gateway​

Every endpoint created in Mia-Platform Console is automatically exposed through an API Gateway, which provides a centralized point of control for security and traffic management.

  • Centralized Security: Apply authentication and authorization policies consistently across all your APIs. Integrate with external Identity Providers (IdP) or use static API keys.
  • API Lifecycle Management: Manage traffic, apply rate limiting, and get a clear view of how your APIs are being used through the API Portal, which provides auto-generated and interactive documentation.

By adopting Mia-Platform's composition-based approach, development teams can stop reinventing the wheel and focus on what truly matters: generating value and delivering innovative features to their users, faster and more securely.