services: development consulting
Assists you during the early project concept phase as well as during your development phase Our development consulting services can take many forms depending on your needs. During your project's critical ideation and system architecture phase, our experienced Design Consultants can assist your engineering team to shorten the learning curve so you can leverage OpenSAFfire as fast as possible. They can also identify the key components of a highly-available design and implementation. Our consultants can assist with partitioning your application on the GoAhead Service Availability software and underlying hardware architecture. During your development phase, we can also supplement your engineering staff with dedicated, experienced GoAhead Design Consultants who are subject matter experts in high availability and hardware. Design Consultants have extensive design expertise and can help your engineering staff accelerate application development. One of the most popular forms of design and consulting is the GoAhead SA Forum Architectural Design Service SA FORUM ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SERVICE GoAhead SA Forum Architectural Design Service Data Sheet The GoAhead SA Forum Architectural Design Service is targeted at helping organizations define a highly available architecture leveraging the SA Forum specifications. Tailored to your unique project requirements, the GoAhead design services team will work with you to write an HA Architectural Requirements and Design Document. The first stage of the architectural design process is discovery of your functional and system requirements. Key items included in the discovery process:
Once requirements have been identified, the services engagement can include the design of one or more of the following HA services: system services, application services, and the platform management service. For more information on the SA Forum Architectural Design Service see the Service Brochure. OTHER EXAMPLES OF GOAHEAD DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING SERVICES INCLUDE: Initial on-site evaluation of application and system requirements Customer application analysis and recommendation Consultancy on reliability and high availability (HA) considerations Consultancy in outlining API invocation sequence, explanation of code flows, illustration of the SA Forum programming model, healthchecking methodologies Suggestions to avoid common pitfalls and to accommodate interdependencies between system elements Consulting on porting or adapting legacy applications Migrating existing applications and legacy code can be an expensive and time consuming activity. GoAhead Development Consultants can analyze legacy high availability applications and provide guidance and assistance with migration from the current environment to the GoAhead environment. Our consultants will identify specific platform and middleware dependencies and help determine the optimum solution.
