Cloud-Ready UI Architectures: Front-End Considerations Often Missed in Enterprise Migrations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9246.IJETCSIT-V7I1P128Keywords:
Cloud Migration, Enterprise UI, Micro-Frontends, Modular Front-End, BFF, CI/CD, Accessibility, ObservabilityAbstract
Enterprise cloud migrations frequently modernize back-end infrastructure while underestimating front-end architecture, delivery, and operational concerns. This paper synthesizes practitioner evidence from multi-domain enterprise web systems and prior research on micro-frontends and migration methodologies to propose a cloud-ready UI architecture blueprint. We focus on front-end considerations that are commonly missed: (i) UI-domain decomposition and contract boundaries, (ii) Backends-for-Frontends (BFF) and API gateway placement for latency and blast-radius control, (iii) independent CI/CD and release governance to prevent UI–service coupling, (iv) cross-browser and accessibility compliance as migration risk multipliers, and (v) runtime observability for distributed UIs. The methodology is expressed as reference architectures and checklists to reduce integration risk, improve deploy ability, and preserve user experience continuity during incremental migration.
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