Finding the
right Full Stack
Web Development
Consultant
A full-stack consulting developer is often expected to be a black belt in everything from UX to UI design to project management to Agile processes and even coding. But of course, that’s a pretty tall ask. What you should be looking for is an in-depth and nuanced understanding of each aspect of the process, how they all impact the outcome of a software or application development project, and how each needs to come together.
Here are the areas of competency and oversight you should expect from a modern full-stack developer in today’s ever-changing software development landscape:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Overseeing the entire flow is perhaps their largest responsibility. Those in the full-stack consulting job description will likely find and employ specialists to complete many or all stages throughout the software development project. Still, the key is how well they work with clients, colleagues, designers, and coders to complete a project on time and at budget. Setting timelines, making infrastructure decisions, coordinating internal buy-off on various phases, and making sure everything is compliant are essential skills.
UI/UX DESIGN
UI and UX design is a core competency, as this will affect the application’s end-user experience. As the actual UX and UI designs are configured, a working full-stack consultant will have to ensure the UX and UI designs represent the end user’s needs and facilitate the rest of the team’s needs concerns. Expect them to be on top of the best practices in these areas to avoid anything going off the rails in the early phases.
FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
This phase is often referred to as the “client-side” development. Again, it will usually involve typical programming language browsers such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JavaScript frameworks like React or Aurelia. The job description of a front-end consulting full-stack developer is essentially a web designer with experience creating websites and applications that can be interacted with and viewed in any web browser and mobile device. Alongside consulting and design, working with clients and offering support is our expertise.
BACK-END DEVELOPMENT
Back-end development pertains to all the software that runs on servers, such as applications and API’s that will power your app or website. Various backend languages include Ruby, Python, and Java, as well as others. However, another key aspect of the full stack developer job description is to work with and create databases, which will entail working knowledge of the programming language SQL, used to run servers. Our back-end full-stack team has experience working with the behind-the-scenes technology, including internal architecture and databases, to build your website to its fullest potential.
DEVOPS KNOWLEDGE
DevOps knowledge is the crucial phase where code is taken from a cloud-based repository like GitHub and put into production. Sometimes this means installing operating systems or managing the complex set of dependencies as your codebase grows. Depending on your company’s paradigm, various engineering specialists might be deployed to fine-tune and tweak the code to be ready for showtime. Down the road, you might want to work with your full stack developer team to apply various App Lifestyle Management tools to update and sculpt the application over time.
Controlling project costs
A truly seasoned full-stack developer with extensive experience will conduct a thorough inventory of all the goals and variables, using this information to keep check costs. They’ll be working diligently to outline them all at the onset of the project for maximum transparency. The project’s full costs will include not just the development of the software or applications but also implementing it within your company. Other variables include:
COMPLEXITY
If your desired AWS migration design involves complex functionality and detailed retrofitting to meet your new parameters (such as tight regulations within your industry), extra personnel and development time will be required, but your AWS migration consultant will advise.
PROJECT LENGTH
Every migration project has different scalability requirements that need to be identified and scoped for as you work toward moving to the cloud. For example, with your AWS migration design goals, how many services are you looking to switch over? How much can be handled by your own IT dept?
IMPLEMENTATION
Depending on how many services you’re trying to move over, as well as how complex those are and what regulations you’ll need to adapt to your AWS migration vendor will detail how those will affect budgets and timelines. If one of your goals is to spread workloads across multiple clouds while preserving connections between workloads, this adds complexity as well, but may be well worth the time and costs.
MAINTENANCE
Reaching MVP (minimum viable product) is often just the first phase of any AWS migration project. Updates in business processes, regulations and requests for new features usually require additional coding to make sure your apps stay functional in the cloud.
INFRASTRUCTURE
An expert AWS migration developer will not just execute the migration services you need, but advise on how best to house it in the cloud as well. This goes back to your AWS migration consulting firm recommending only the appropriate and most efficient services in the first place, and making sure you’re not overpaying for ones you don’t need.
The Loft Towers difference
As a premiere AWS migration company, one of our key differentiators is that we never use offshore resources. This allows us to maximize quality control while still offering peerless services at competitive rates. We get the job done right the first time, so costly rewrites don’t come up later. As an agile mid-sized AWS migration firm, we focus on maintaining an efficient team of highly trained and dedicated engineers.
Avoiding project failure
Delivering industry-leading Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration services always involves potential obstacles. But by taking every precaution imaginable, it’s easier to avoid AWS migration delays, cloud computing frustrations, and unnecessary budget overages. Aligning on expectations, timelines, and logistics with your partner is 90% of the battle. To reach your expectations, we work with our clients to make sure they have the right support team to help them on their end to ensure long-term viability. Be aware of the following factors:
UPFRONT PLANNING
Your consulting Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration developer needs to know your goals, related industry regulations, including rights reserved laws, estimated budget, and your approval process up-front to help stay on track and avoid surprises.
DEADLINES
If your AWS consulting migration partner feels the proposed timing is unrealistically tight to provide the best AWS migration services, the best move is to suggest an alternate timeline even before the project kicks off.
ITERATIVE PROCESS
With an AWS consulting migration firm that believes in an iterative development process, you’ll see multiple iterations of the migration progress and cloud services as you go, allowing check-ins throughout. Regular deliverables and demos ensure a healthy awareness of the migration progress’s best practices and a consistent feedback loop, so there are no surprises.
COMMUNICATION
Migrating any type of software involves constant back and forth. With your commitment to eliminating lag-time and providing smooth, efficient, timely feedback throughout, we can complete your project solutions on time and budget.
A smarter collaboration process
After years of successful AWS migration projects, we’ve learned that the best results begin with us all being on the same page at the start. So we go out of our way to get to know your goals, end-users, logistics, variables, and timelines as deeply as possible before we begin. The more we know upfront, the less backtracking later on in the AWS migration and cloud services solutions process. Here’s our 5-step action plan:
1.
DISCOVERY
The first phase is the meeting of the minds. Here’s where our consulting AWS experts get to know your vision, find out how it aligns with our skills and experience, and truly do our homework before beginning our AWS migration services. Our AWS and cloud migration founders oversee every step for quality control.
2.
ESTIMATE
We kick off each project with an upfront agreement on cost and timing. We’ll offer a plan for AWS migration consulting solutions that will be truly worth the investment, providing specific cloud and migration services details about what you can hold us accountable for at each phase.
3.
ARCHITECT
Our principal skill set, as an AWS migration consulting company, resides here. Our team gets to work, using only the help of in-house developers, applying the right tools and strategies to make your AWS migration efforts a success. And our online project management and consulting services portal help to provide transparency throughout the process.
4.
BUILD
Here’s where our AWS migration architects and consulting developers bring your vision to reality. We loop in your team, give them the reigns, get real-time feedback, and adjust, making sure you get the AWS migration solutions services you’re looking for.
5.
LAUNCH
We’ll be right beside you as you bring your AWS solution into the world. This is where you and your customers will truly reap the benefits of working with a top-tier AWS migration consulting developer. And as your company grows, we can help you make solutions services updates to keep things running at peak efficiency.
A range of industry experience
We’ve completed AWS migration services for the following industries:
