MACH Transition Services

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MACH architecture offers significant benefits such as fast go-to-market, flexibility for development teams, and avoiding vendor lock-in. However, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution for every organization. Our solution architects bring extensive experience in defining the right target architecture tailored to your organization’s digital maturity and Dev/Sec/Ops processes. When choosing a MACH approach, we guide clients through a structured, step-by-step migration process to ensure a smooth transition and maximize value.

Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) that follow MACH architecture often rely on a headless CMS. Our talents have extensive experience with both implementing headless CMS from scratch and transitioning from headful to headless CMS. We are experienced in implementing:

• Adobe Exprience Manager (AEM)
• Contentul
• ContentStack
• StoryBlok
• Sanity
• Strapi

Additionally, we are open to supporting implementations of any other headless CMS. We help clients select the most suitable headless CMS for their unique business needs. 

Headless e-commerce is a standard approach when implementing modern DXPs, ensuring a unified look and feel for end users. Our talents have extensive experience with both implementing headless e-commerce from scratch and transitioning from headful to headless e-commerce. We have experience implementing:

• Commercetools
• Adobe Commerce/Magento
• Shopify

Additionally, we are open to supporting implementations of any other headless e-commerce platforms. We help clients select the most suitable e-commerce solution for their unique business needs. 

With MACH and JAMstack principles in mind, we empower your organization to rebuild its frontend layer using modern static site generation frameworks like Next.js.

• Enhanced Performance & SEO: Achieve top-tier performance, superior SEO, and an exceptional browsing experience for end-users.
• Author-Friendly WYSIWYG Editing: Provide a seamless, in-context editing experience for authors with instant, real-time previews.
• Developer-Focused, Future-Proof Architecture: Build a flexible, vendor-agnostic architecture designed for long-term sustainability and ease of integration.
• Avoid Vendor Lock-In: Create a modern JAMstack solution that ensures flexibility without being tied to specific platforms.

With our JAMstack development expertise, your website will achieve top-tier performance and a seamless user experience.

Decoupling the frontend layer is one of the first steps toward achieving a target MACH architecture. Frontend applications are detached from the backend via a gateway that routes requests. Our frontend teams are experienced in developing:

• Server-Side Rendering (SSR)
• Static Site Generation (SSG)
• Single Page Applications (SPAs)
• Micro-frontends

In a MACH architecture, we typically enable more than one frontend solution. We help customers split their frontends while reusing as many components as possible. Our frontend frameworks of choice include React/Next.js, Angular, and Vue/Nuxt.

A mid-layer in a MACH architecture is typically an API Gateway or Backend for Frontend solution, depending on the variety of frontend applications. Decoupling backend systems from the frontends is essential when implementing a MACH solution. This approach enables:

• Decoupled development across product teams
• Easier future replacement of any backend system
• Ultimately, it also helps avoid vendor lock-in.

Introducing a middle layer simplifies API management, enhances security, and abstracts backend complexity by providing a unified entry point for clients. It optimizes performance with features like caching, load balancing, and data aggregation while enabling scalability and flexibility.

In a MACH architecture, while legacy backend systems may still be in use, our focus is not on heavily customizing them. Instead, we develop any required customizations and business logic in dedicated microservices. The microservice approach promotes modularity, enabling teams to work on different components simultaneously using the best-suited. Additionally, microservices facilitate faster innovation and deployment cycles, while their decoupled nature makes the system more adaptable to changing business needs. Our teams are experienced in developing scalable microservices using Java, .NET, and Node.js and deploying them on cloud environments like Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. As passionate developers, we embrace other technologies as well to ensure the best fit for each project. 

Refactoring a heavily customized, existing monolith system is a challenging task, but we have extensive experience with it. Our recommended approach starts with identifying and isolating key components, followed by a step-by-step refactoring of the monolith by moving functionality into dedicated microservices. Until the complete migration is achieved, a router is required to manage traffic between microservices and the old monolith solution. Refactoring helps to reduce dependencies, making it easier to scale and maintain individual components independently. It also improves fault isolation, allowing failures in one area to have minimal impact on the rest of the system, and positions the application for faster development cycles and better adaptability to changing business requirements.