DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AS A TECHNICAL FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCALABLE E-SERVICES AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2663-4023.2025.31.1053Keywords:
digital technologies; scalable e-services; monolithic architecture; microservice architecture; containerization; fault tolerance; cyber resilience; Internet of Everything.Abstract
The article examines digital technologies as the technical foundation for developing scalable electronic services and digital platforms. It substantiates the relevance of the problem associated with the limitations of monolithic and partially modular solutions under conditions of increasing load, heightened requirements for cyber resilience, integration of artificial intelligence services, and the need to support hybrid cloud environments. Based on an analysis of modern approaches in digital engineering, a reference multi-layer platform architecture is proposed, comprising infrastructure, container-orchestration, platform, service, and user interaction layers. A structural and functional decomposition is provided, demonstrating the roles of cloud computing, containerization, Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh technologies, event buses, and DevOps/DevSecOps practices in ensuring scalability, elasticity, and system observability. The scientific novelty of the proposed approach and its practical significance for digital platform engineering are outlined. The research methodology is based on a combination of architectural analysis, queuing theory, and load testing in a simulated cloud environment. Comparative experiments for monolithic and microservice implementations showed a 1.8–2.5-fold reduction in average response time and an almost threefold increase in throughput for the microservice platform, along with a significant decrease in the share errors and in the average service recovery time. A set of technical recommendations is proposed regarding the use of containerization, orchestration, event-driven approaches, and built-in observability when designing next-generation digital platforms. The research findings can be applied to the development of e-services in public administration, education, healthcare, finance, and in projects related to the Internet of Everything.
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