HCLTech's AIForce Code for .Net Platform : 1 Day Briefing

With the increased adoption of agile practices and cloud deployments, DevOps has become a de facto requirement for all modern application development and even maintenance initiatives.

HCLTech offers several templated solutions for ground-up development of digital applications through its AIForce Code platform, with DevOps support provided built-in. This ensures that developers start their development using best practices in-built into their environments with minimal or no effort from their side.

AIForce Code for .Net is HCL's way of bringing productivity to application development on Microsoft technologies through automation in the development process. It supports HCL's approach to platform-based development towards creation of future-proof business solutions.

 Developers using the accelerator could do code-generation using models and then enable DevOps for same.

 This enables code standardization and significant reduction in the development cycle.

Some of the most popular solutions that will be applicable for Azure include

• DOT NET Core Microservice with Swagger

• DOT NET Core MVC Web App

• Angular Web App

As part of the solutions, the following are provided out of the box:

 Automate application scaffolding building to enable developer focus on solving the business problem.

 Codify the best practices in code scaffolding generated.

 Build a part of NFRs automatically in scaffolding to enable NFRs to take care from the start of development itself

 Authenticate from existing Azure Active directory.

 Create new repository from multiple existing repositories.

 Define custom solution template and re-use in multiple projects.

 Create and deploy ARM templates of Azure PaaS services like APIM, Logic Apps, Key Vaults etc.

 In-built support for DevOps through CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps TFVC and Azure DevOps GIT both

 Users can choose either version based on their preference or organizational mandate.

The solution has its unique benefits through bringing in :

 Consistency and standardization across development teams.

 Automate application scaffolding building to enable developer focus on solving the business problem.

 Codify the best practices in code scaffolding generated.

 Increase the quality of systems by automation.

 Get the knowledge, experience and best practices propagated across projects.

 Enable the full-stack development.

 Build a part of NFRs automatically in scaffolding to enable NFRs to take care from the start of development itself

 Create micro-service-oriented application by replicating services from multiple existing applications.