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Updating pharmacy inventory system
Infinity InfoSoft successfully modernized the legacy inventory management system for a leading pharmacy chain, resulting in increased speed, improved stability, and enhanced user satisfaction.
Client
Our customer is an international chain of pharmacies renowned for its extensive range of health and beauty products. An online store offers delivery or in-store pickup from the nearest pharmacy for customer convenience. The company is actively developing and implementing innovative technologies to enhance customer service and streamline internal processes.
Detailed information about the client cannot be disclosed under the provisions of the NDA.
Legacy code refactoring
Our team conducted a comprehensive audit of the existing system, meticulously analyzing the codebase, architecture, and technologies in use. The audit revealed that the system was built on an outdated version of the .NET Framework, employed an obsolete component library, and relied on an outdated Sybase database. These factors contributed to several critical issues, including poor performance, scalability challenges, security vulnerabilities, and limited integration with modern tools and services.
Based on the audit results, we decided to completely overhaul the system’s code. Our experts choose .NET 8 as the new tech framework because it offers superior performance, flexibility, and a full set of capabilities for developing cutting-edge applications.
Migration to microservice architecture
With a focus on innovation and efficiency, we transitioned to a microservice architecture by decomposing the system into independent modules, each dedicated to specific business capabilities. Our microservices were meticulously designed with principles of loose coupling, high cohesion, and alignment with business domains, incorporating best practices from SOLID and domain-driven design (DDD) principles. This strategic shift significantly streamlined our development, testing, and deployment processes, while also enhancing fault tolerance and scalability.
The implementation was carried out in phases to ensure seamless continuity of the client’s business operations. Employing the “strangler fig pattern”, we gradually replaced legacy functionality with new microservices. To maintain data and functional compatibility during the transition, we utilized adapters and data transformation mechanisms based on the anti-corruption layer pattern. This approach allowed us to carefully manage the complexity and potential overhead introduced by these additional layers, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition.
Enhanced performance and stability
We have optimized the application’s performance across all tiers. This process included fine-tuning database queries in both Sybase and SQL Server, leveraging Redis for data caching to accelerate access to frequently used information, and utilizing asynchronous programming alongside parallel data processing to boost application responsiveness. Additionally, we implemented comprehensive monitoring and logging mechanisms to swiftly identify and address potential issues, resulting in improved system stability.
Enhanced usability
Understanding that the efficiency of pharmacists’ work directly depends on the usability of the tools they use, we placed a special focus on developing the interface of the new application. Our process began with an in-depth exploration of workflows to pinpoint key pain points, needs, and preferences regarding the interface. We meticulously analyzed typical work scenarios, frequently used features and problem areas of the existing application.
Armed with this data, we engineered clickable interface prototypes featuring various design and navigation options. These prototypes allowed us to test different approaches and gather feedback from pharmacists before beginning the development.
We conducted multiple rounds of usability testing, refining the prototypes based on the results. This iterative cycle continued until we achieved the optimal interface.
The outcome is an intuitive interface with easy navigation, a modern design, and an adaptive layout, ensuring correct display across different devices.
Technologies
Database
Sybase, Redis, SQL
Monitoring
Datadog
Programming languages
.NET, C#, TypeScript
API testing
Postman
VCS
Bitbucket
DevOps
Docker, Jenkins
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