- New Subsystem-Level Management Capabilities Transform How Teams Visualize and Govern Complex Microservices Landscapes, Preventing Sprawl and Enabling Targeted Observability
- Component Diagrams for Architectural Flows and AI-Guided Pathways with Embedded Expert Knowledge Help Teams Navigate Monolith Complexity and Accelerate Application Modernization
- Enterprise Architecture Integration Bridges the Gap Between Manual Documentation and Real-Time Architecture, Helping Keep Critical Systems of Record Current
MENLO PARK, Calif. – April 29, 2025 – vFunction®, the pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability (AO), today announced significant platform advancements that reduce complexity across the architectural spectrum and target the growing disconnect between development speed and architectural integrity. The “2025 Architecture in Software Development,” a new study of over 600 IT professionals reveals that despite 63% of enterprises claiming integrated architecture practices, over half report delays observed alongside architectural misalignment, with 56% acknowledging production environments no longer match their documentation. This disconnect grows as AI code assistants accelerate development while hiding poor architectural quality beneath functional code. With vFunction’s introduction of subsystem-level microservices management and expanded OpenTelemetry applications for distributed architectures, organizations can actively observe, identify, and act on architectural issues. For monolithic applications, teams can accelerate modernization initiatives with component diagrams for architectural flows and AI-guided starting points for complex refactoring tasks. The platform also now includes integration with enterprise architecture (EA) tools through open APIs, enabling architects to maintain current and accurate architectural designs.
“Today’s software teams struggle to maintain architectural integrity while delivering new features and functionality at unprecedented speeds, especially as AI-powered development accelerates code creation,” said Moti Rafalin, CEO and co-founder of vFunction. “Our enhanced platform supports the continuous architecture lifecycle — from design and baseline creation through measurement, validation, and drift remediation — ensuring systems evolve intentionally. By providing comprehensive visibility at different levels of granularity, we’re empowering software architects and engineering teams to make informed architectural decisions that balance velocity with quality. This helps companies build systems that can scale, evolve, and support business innovation despite increasing complexity.”
“As our application environment expands, we’re focused on proactively preventing architectural challenges rather than reacting to them,” said Yogi Byreddy, CTO of CTIS, Inc. “vFunction shows us our architecture components and their interactions in a graphical representation that is easy to comprehend. This visibility has enhanced our approach to modernization and new development initiatives. Our teams can now collaborate with shared architectural facts, making better decisions based on what’s actually happening in our systems.”
Targeted Observability of Distributed Architectures to Prevent Microservices Sprawl
The pursuit of rapid feature delivery risks overshadowing architectural quality. The “2025 Architecture in Software Development: Practices and Challenges” study shows nearly one in three organizations report service disruptions tied directly to architectural inconsistencies. Particularly in microservices-based architectures, where the distributed nature of systems amplifies complexity and decentralized responsibility, making technical debt harder to detect — architecture quality too often grows unnoticed until it becomes a serious issue.
“While AI coding tools excel at generating functional solutions quickly, they don’t inherently understand architectural boundaries or system design principles,” said Amir Rapson, CTO, CCSO and co-founder at vFunction. “Our platform bridges this gap by providing the visibility and governance necessary to ensure that faster development doesn’t lead to architectural chaos that hampers future innovation.”
vFunction has introduced powerful new capabilities that equip software architects, engineers, and developers to visualize and effectively manage distributed application architecture:
- Subsystem-level visualization lets teams manage applications at varying levels of granularity: Managing hundreds of microservices often leads to cognitive overload. For example, team leads working on a specific business domain (e.g., a mortgage team within a retail bank) can now easily isolate and observe their five or so related microservices to clearly understand, manage, and apply governance and patterns to their focus area.
OpenTelemetry tagging connects architecture and operations: With vFunction’s unique use of deployment information from OpenTelemetry data in its platform, architects and DevOps teams can ensure architectural governance and decisions are properly implemented in production environments and meet compliance and regulatory requirements instituted in specific zones. Users define tagging rules based on deployment information like cloud provider, region, and instance type, enabling automated governance based on operational context.
“With the rise of AI-assisted code generation and the need to increase development velocity, it is increasingly difficult for enterprises to maintain a coherent application and systems architecture model,” said James Governor, analyst and co-founder at RedMonk. “vFunction is integrating Open Telemetry data into its stack in order to provide real time, constantly updated architectural observability and documentation to reduce sprawl and enable consistent management.”
Simplifying the Modernization Path to Sustainable Monolithic Applications
Companies operating monolithic architectures are more likely to face engineering velocity, scalability, and resiliency challenges compared to ones using microservices, making the need for effective modernization solutions essential. Over the last five years, 44% of software architects and engineers have cited increasing complexity in monolithic applications — resulting in blurred domain boundaries and declining modularity — as a top challenge. vFunction’s new functionalities empower organizations to transform complex legacy systems by easing the traditionally overwhelming process of modernizing monoliths:
- Component diagrams for architectural flows provide deep visibility into monolithic applications: By visualizing domain-level interactions and call paths between interconnected components, software architects can identify architectural violations, understand complex dependencies, and analyze the impact of potential changes before implementation. With intuitive visualizations and exportable diagrams, teams can effectively communicate architectural insights across stakeholders.
- AI-guided starting points for complex refactoring: For teams wrestling with complex monolithic applications, vFunction has embedded its modernization expertise directly into the platform. The platform now provides multiple context-specific starting points for modernization, adapting recommendations based on whether teams need targeted refactoring or broader service extraction.
“Modernizing monoliths requires a fundamentally different approach than managing distributed systems,” added Rapson. “Our teams have worked with some of the world’s most complex applications, and we’ve embedded that expertise directly into our platform to guide organizations through what has traditionally been an overwhelming process.”
Enterprise Architecture Integration Provides Deep, Real-Time Visibility Into Applications and Cross-Team Collaboration on a Shared Model
vFunction’s new architecture as code (C4 diagrams) export capabilities help enterprises seamlessly connect enterprise architecture systems with real-time application insights. vFunction automatically discovers and pushes real-time services, subsystems, and dependencies into EA systems, transforming static diagrams into living documentation that accurately reflects current application architecture. This approach immediately identifies architectural drift while liberating teams from manual documentation updates, keeping these critical systems of record up to date.
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