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In fast-paced organizations, traditional architecture diagrams quickly become obsolete. Static analysis tools can’t keep up with the actual architecture. vFunction delivers real-time visualizations of your microservices environment by continuously capturing changes, giving you an up-to-date view of your entire system.
vFunction automatically creates sequence flow diagrams, providing a complete view of distributed application flows, quickly exposing inefficiencies due to complexity. vFunction’s up-to-date architectural documentation highlights anti-patterns such as circular or multi-hop flows that impact resiliency and performance. As a system of record for live architectures, vFunction enables teams to rapidly pinpoint issues, significantly reducing MTTR.
vFunction’s architecture governance helps teams control sprawl and govern data access and connections by setting rules for individual services or service groups. When violations occur, actionable ‘to-do’s’ guide teams to resolve issues. Helpful guardrails ensure microservices evolve as planned and support data access principles, enabling secure development without compromising architectural integrity. Additionally, the system is able to identify services that rely on similar resources and API calls to recommend merging them in order to simplify the system.
When microservices deviate from their intended configuration, architectural drift occurs, often going undetected until it causes incidents or outages.
vFunction establishes a baseline architecture, mapping and monitoring all dependencies between services and resources in distributed systems. It tracks architectural events in real-time, provides alerts when deviations occur, and offers guidance to remediate issues before they escalate.
AO complements APM tools. While both leverage OpenTelemetry data, architectural observability uses only OpenTelemetry tracing date and applies data science to obtain a deeper understanding of the architecture. The fundamental difference is that AO focuses on architectural drift - a concept that does not exist in APM tools. It establishes an architectural baseline and measures how it changes from release to release. It focuses on the quality of the architecture, applying policies to it, and identifying specific architectural complexity issues that are the root cause of performance issues that may be identified by APM tools.
In vFunction, “to-do’s” are tasks triggered by architectural events and rule violations. This action-oriented approach transforms architectural observability into a powerful, results-driven capability. vFunction goes beyond simple alerts or visualizations. It pinpoints what needs fixing and tracks subsequent releases to verify issue resolution, creating a closed-loop system that continuously validates and enhances resiliency.
“When application architectures become too complex, resiliency, security, performance, and developer efficiency suffer. vFunction is helping enterprises gain a deep understanding of their software architecture and improve system governance, which can enable software engineers to work faster and maintain healthy microservices."
Program Vice President at IDC
Take control of your microservices, macroservices, or distributed monoliths with vFunction’s AI-driven architectural observability platform.
