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Application Modernization

Google Cloud Applications

Modernize applications around delivery speed and reliability.

Application modernization should make software easier to change, operate, and scale. It should not turn every system into an expensive rewrite.

Altivate maps each application to the right path—retain, rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, or retire—then builds the platform, APIs, delivery controls, and reliability practices around that choice.

The outcome: shorter release paths, clearer service ownership, stronger reliability, and a platform teams can keep operating.

Application portfolio
Monoliths Packaged apps APIs Digital services
Modern runtime & delivery
Cloud Run GKE Apigee CI/CD & security
Operating model
SRE Observability Platform guardrails FinOps
Faster releases Elastic scale Safer change Clear ownership
Portfolio evidence drives the modernization path; platform engineering makes the selected path repeatable.
Paths

Choose the lightest modernization that earns its value

Portfolio assessment

Score business criticality, change demand, lifecycle risk, dependencies, data gravity, operational burden, and cloud suitability before selecting a target state.

Serverless with Cloud Run

Move stateless services and event-driven workloads to managed containers where teams need rapid releases, elastic scale, and less cluster operations.

Containers with GKE

Modernize complex or portable container platforms with workload identity, policy, ingress, autoscaling, observability, and a clear cluster operating model.

API modernization with Apigee

Expose and manage APIs with consistent security, lifecycle, analytics, quotas, and developer experience across legacy and modern backends.

Secure software delivery

Build tested delivery paths using artifact controls, vulnerability scanning, policy, progressive releases, and environment promotion—not one-off pipelines.

SRE & platform operations

Define service levels, error budgets, observability, incident response, capacity, and platform ownership so modernization survives the project phase.

Platform

A practical Google Cloud application stack

  • Cloud Run
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Apigee
  • Artifact Registry
  • Cloud Build
  • Cloud Deploy
  • Cloud Logging & Monitoring
  • Secret Manager
  • Cloud Armor
  • Pub/Sub
Entry point

Start with one constrained application portfolio

Select a coherent set of applications, map the dependency boundary, agree the business and reliability measures, and prove the platform pattern before scaling it across the estate.

Google Cloud practice

Explore the full Google Cloud capability set

Bring us a portfolio, a platform bottleneck, or one application that has become too difficult to change.

Map an application modernization path →

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Sources, proof and authorship

Sources for application modernization

Use these sources to inspect the underlying guidance, published customer evidence and named analysis. Adjacent proof is labelled explicitly.

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