This is a tale about how we've designed, built, and continue expanding an exciting cloud system. Don't get me wrong, every cloud system is interesting to me, but this one was challenging.
It all started with a short requirement „here's a desktop app, make a SaaS around it“ 😊
On this journey, we've tried almost everything and hit virtually every wall, but in the end, we've made it work. So let's see what do we have... something blue is obviously Azure.
Something borrowed is a desktop app that we're using through COM interop, and it's a crucial part of the system.
Something new represents serverless, event-driven architecture, containers, automated everything, you name it.
Something old represents virtual machines because a desktop app has to run on Windows, and we've made it scaleable, reliable, and self-healing.
Come and see how you can build a system like this needing zero manual maintenance.