Architecture & Assessment

Building successful MarkLogic solutions requires more than just implementation expertise—it demands strategic architectural thinking and continuous optimization. Our architecture and assessment services ensure your solutions are designed correctly from the start and perform optimally throughout their lifecycle.

# Architectural Design & Guidance

MarkLogic deployments often replace multiple interconnected systems while integrating with existing enterprise infrastructure. This complexity spans multiple architectural disciplines, each critical to project success:

# Solutions Architecture

Defining the overall system design that meets your business requirements while leveraging MarkLogic's unique capabilities. We help you understand how MarkLogic fits within your broader technology ecosystem and design solutions that maximize its strengths.

# Data Architecture

Crafting effective data models, document structures, and indexing strategies that balance query performance, storage efficiency, and maintainability. The flexibility of MarkLogic's schema-agnostic approach is powerful—but it requires thoughtful design to avoid future complications.

# Security Architecture

Implementing robust security models using MarkLogic's enterprise-grade features: role-based access control, element-level security, encryption, and comprehensive auditing. Security must be architected from the beginning, not retrofitted later.

# Integration Architecture

Designing how MarkLogic connects with other systems—REST APIs, message queues, ETL pipelines, and real-time data feeds. Integration patterns must be reliable, performant, and maintainable.

# Application Architecture

Structuring your MarkLogic applications for modularity, testability, and long-term maintenance. From REST service design to search application patterns, we guide architectural decisions that prevent technical debt.

# Infrastructure Architecture

Planning cluster configurations, disaster recovery strategies, and capacity requirements. MarkLogic's distributed architecture offers powerful scalability—but only when infrastructure is designed correctly.

# Comprehensive Health Checks

Even well-built systems benefit from periodic evaluation. Our health check service provides an independent assessment of your MarkLogic implementation, identifying opportunities for improvement before issues become critical.

# The Assessment Process

Understanding - We immerse ourselves in your system, integrating seamlessly with your team to understand the business requirements, data characteristics, and overall architecture. This isn't a superficial audit—it's a thorough examination of how your solution operates.

Analysis - We evaluate multiple dimensions of your implementation:

• Business requirements alignment and coverage
• Data modeling approaches and effectiveness
• Architectural patterns and decisions
• Code quality, organization, and maintainability
• Index configurations and their impact on performance
• Security implementations and potential vulnerabilities
• Infrastructure utilization and capacity planning

Recommendations - We deliver a detailed report identifying what's working well and where improvements would deliver value. Our recommendations are prioritized by impact and implementation complexity, providing a clear roadmap for enhancements.

Quick Wins - Some improvements can be implemented immediately with minimal risk. Where appropriate, we make these beneficial changes during the assessment process itself—delivering immediate value alongside strategic guidance.

Ongoing Support - Understanding that organizational change takes time, we include follow-up consultation hours with our health check assessments (up to 8 hours within 2 months) for questions, clarifications, and guidance as you implement recommendations. This ensures the full value of our assessment is realized.

# Performance Optimization

When performance issues threaten your success, systematic analysis and expert remediation make the difference. Our performance tuning service addresses elusive bottlenecks that resist simple solutions.

# The Performance Challenge

MarkLogic is an ACID-compliant distributed database, search engine, and application platform. Performance depends on the complex interaction between code, indexes, cache settings, infrastructure resources, and data characteristics. A bottleneck is rarely caused by a single factor.

According to the law of diminishing returns, increasing one resource (memory, for example) doesn't necessarily improve performance if another factor is constrained (like disk I/O throughput). Effective optimization requires understanding these interdependencies.

# Our Systematic Approach

Controlled Analysis - We use methodical profiling and monitoring to identify actual bottlenecks rather than assumptions. Query performance, index utilization, resource consumption, and system behavior under load are all examined.

Root Cause Identification - Performance problems often have multiple contributing factors. We identify not just symptoms but underlying causes—whether in code patterns, index configurations, cache settings, or infrastructure constraints.

Targeted Recommendations - Our recommendations address the specific issues in your system. We prioritize changes by their expected impact and implementation effort, providing a clear optimization roadmap.

Implementation Support - Whether changes are needed in code, configuration, infrastructure, or content modeling, we support their implementation. We can make the changes directly or guide your team through the process.

# Early Engagement Advantage

Architecture and assessment services deliver maximum value when engaged early. Fixing architectural issues after development is far more costly than making the right decisions upfront. Similarly, preventing performance problems through proper design is vastly easier than remediating them in production.

Whether you're starting a new MarkLogic project or maintaining an existing system, our architecture and assessment expertise ensures your solutions are built on solid foundations and optimized for success.

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