Full Stack Development
Dark Wolf has strong expertise developing custom application solutions using industry leading languages and frameworks. Dark Wolf follows Agile and DevOps product management approach and leverage lean methodologies including Scrum, Paired Programming, Test Driven Development, and User Centered Design. Dark Wolf uses CI/CD pipelines to automate the testing, security scanning, and quality analysis of our delivered software. Dark Wolf deploys our applications to traditional cloud IaaS environments, and/or PaaS environments such as Kubernetes DevSecOps platforms.
UI/UX Design
Dark Wolf follows a user-centered design approach to development of software systems. Our designers work closely with product teams and users to identify and design user facing solutions that address key needs. We perform Discovery and Framing (D&F) where we use investigative research techniques such as surveys, interviews, and user observation sessions to understand, or discover, the problems. We then conduct brainstorming sessions and other collaborative exercises to form possible solutions that we present, in the form of wireframes and storyboards, to our users to gather feedback. We perform these D&F exercises iteratively throughout the life of the project to ensure we are continuously engaging with users and refining our design to best meet their needs. This ensures tight feedback loops to minimize refactoring impacts and achieve MVP more quickly.
Microservice Architecture
Dark Wolf has extensive experience designing and implementating software system following a microservice architecture approach. We incorporate Domain Driven Design modeling techniques to decompose large domains into modular and loosely coupled components. We implement microservices using Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant software containers to maximize portability across environments, and implement OpenAPI compliant REST APIs for our services.
Application Modernization
We offer critical modernization services to customers that need to transition and modernize legacy applications to increase accessibility, stability, and performance and reduce complexity and O&M costs. Specific strategies that we apply include:
- Functional Decomposition: Break down a monolithic system into functional components (e.g., using the Strangler Pattern); refactor using SaaS design principles (e.g., 12-Factor App) and focus on cloud-native deployment
- “Lift, Transform, and Shift”: Refactor some element or services within a system to benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and extensibility inherent in a cloud system
- “Lift and Shift”: Take an existing system running on bare-metal or virtual machines and migrate to the cloud or some other more modern environment with very few changes
