Onwelo, a leading Polish IT services provider that is also active on the global market, has opened a dedicated skills centre to support customers in creating, implementing, maintaining and developing applications based on microservices architecture.

The main focus of Onwelo’s skills centre, which is known as Onwelo Microservices Lab, is to create programmable microservices architecture, which it does using advanced container technologies, such as Docker, Mesos and Kubernetes. The skills offered in this area are supplemented by a broad range of capabilities in other areas, such as business analysis, agile programming, the DevOps approach, innovation and security. The fusion of these strengths means that customers will be able to shorten the time needed to devise, activate and implement microservices software based in private, public or hybrid clouds.

“No other skills centre in the east of Europe has as much experience in developing applications in microservices architecture as Onwelo Microservices Lab. We have put together a team of experts with international experience gained in Great Britain, the United States and Asia. They are people well-known in the IT sector who have helped organise important events promoting the application of microservices architecture, such as DevOps Days Warsaw, the Atmosphere Conference and Mesos User Group Warsaw. The partnership agreements we have signed with microservices providers such as Red Hat are a further strong point”, said Piotr Szwed.

The core Onwelo Microservices Lab team is made up of Rafał Głąb, who is Acting Executive Director of the Information Technology Delivery arm of Onwelo and is responsible for microservices, Piotr Szwed, Chief Microservices Expert, and Grzegorz Boryło, leader of the microservices support team. Together, they have more than thirty years of experience in the ICT sector, including, over the last few years, experience of microservices projects. The rest of the lab team is made up of fifty software creators and developers, who all possess a very detailed knowledge of microservices. In the microservices field, Onwelo intends to draw on this experience to provide its customers not only with software-production services, but also with consulting, training, and software support and maintenance.

Using microservices brings endless benefits to customers. It minimises the length of the entire production cycle and simplifies all of its stages because it only takes a few days for the software people to create them, package them, test the code or try them out in the production environment. What is more, as the researchers have reported, microservices enable companies to optimise their servers, which they only use at five or ten per cent of capacity, said Rafał Głąb.

Microservices offer an alternative to the monolithic style of software development. By building applications using microservices architecture, programmers can select and work on individual elements without affecting the whole application, which is what happens in the old, inflexible approach. This increases the efficiency, flexibility, portability and speed with which innovations are introduced at companies. Microservices architecture is employed by companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Netflix, eBay, Apple, Samsung and Intel.