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to achieve, scale and maintain when the software solution relies on microservices compared with a monolithic software one.” According to Shawn Carnahan, CTO at Telestream, the development priority is in orchestration and workflow. “When you break down the challenge into smaller tech units, they become replaceable, upgradeable and scaleable, but you still need something that will orchestrate all
these microservices in order to create a supply chain and business model.” One of Telestream’s larger customers uses the company’s Vantage product for processing 60 million minutes of content. “Managing all this on-premises infrastructure is a huge deal, since they are continually maxed out,” says Carnahan. “They are always two major versions behind, because they just can’t afford the
downtime that a major software upgrade requires. Periodically, they need to scale up and that is capital intensive.” But this particular organisation is transitioning to a new business model where it can perform the same activities, using the same software, now re- architected as microservices. “Now, if they need to process 120 million minutes, we can turn that on tomorrow,” says Carnahan. “And when we do a new software release, they are not even aware of it. We can deploy those changes very incrementally and make sure that nothing breaks in the outcome.” BARRIERS TO ADOPTION The transition is far from complete. Although IP adoption has accelerated,
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