Building Digital Experience Platforms: A Guide to Developing Next-Generation Enterprise Applications

Use digital experience platforms (DXP) to improve your development productivity and release timelines. Leverage the pre-integrated feature sets of DXPs in your organization's digital transformation journey to quickly develop a personalized, secure, and robust enterprise platform.

In this book the authors examine various features of DXPs and provide rich insights into building each layer in a digital platform. Proven best practices are presented with examples for designing and building layers. A special focus is provided on security and quality attributes needed for business-critical enterprise applications. The authors cover modern and emerging digital trends such as Blockchain, IoT, containers, chatbots, artificial intelligence, and more.

The book is divided into five parts related to requirements/design, development, security, infrastructure, and case study. The authors employ proven real-world methods, best practices, and security and integration techniques derived from their rich experience. An elaborate digital transformation case study for a banking application is included.

What You'll Learn

• Develop a digital experience platform from end to end
• Understand best practices and proven methods for designing overall architecture, user interface and integration components, security, and infrastructure
• Study real-world cases, including an elaborate digital transformation building an enterprise platform for a banking application
• Know the open source tools and technology frameworks that can be used to build DXPs

Who This Book Is For

Web developers, full stack developers, digital enthusiasts, digital project managers, and architects

About the Authors

Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar is Practice Lead & Senior Technology Architect in Digital Practice at Infosys Technologies. He is an award-winning digital technology practitioner with skills in technology and practice management and has experience in the wide spectrum of digital technologies, including enterprise portals, content systems, and enterprise search. He has over 17 years of industry experience and was the chief architect in building a digital platform which won the “Best Web Support Site 2013” global award. His areas of expertise include digital technologies, software engineering, performance engineering, and digital program management. He is a Guinness world record holder of participation for successfully developing a mobile application in a coding marathon.

Shailesh holds a bachelor's degree in engineering in computer science and engineering and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in computer science. He holds numerous professional certifications, including TOGAF 9 certification, Oracle Certified Master (OCM) in Java EE5 Enterprise Architect certification, IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer, and IBM Certified Solution Architect Cloud Computing Infrastructure. He is the author of four technical books on digital technologies and has published numerous technical white papers related to digital technologies. He is a frequent speaker at events such as IEEE conferences and Oracle JavaOne.

Sourabhh Sethii is Technology Analyst at Infosys Technologies Limited. His areas of expertise include Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning (ML), Java enterprise technology, front-end frameworks, and integration technology. He has hands-on experience with many technologies, including database integration, continuous integration, security, performance analysis, and web frameworks such as Angular and Node. He has worked in multiple domains, including banking, finance, and manufacturing. He has achieved multiple honors, including “Most Valuable Player,” “Insta Awards,” and “Best Employee Award” from the heads of his unit at Infosys. He has published many technical white papers. He holds a master's degree in software systems, specializing in data analytics, from Bits Pilani, Rajasthan, India.