Summary
Alight, a human capital and technology services provider serving 70% of the Fortune 100 and 35 million end users, faced significant challenges with their monolithic HR application architecture that hindered feature delivery and maintenance. The company struggled with lengthy upgrade cycles and platform complexity that diverted development resources away from innovation. By adopting VMware Tanzu Spring Essentials, including Spring Boot and Application Advisor, Alight transformed their development approach to a compartmentalized microservices architecture. The Application Advisor tool dramatically reduced upgrade time, allowing developers to focus on customer-facing features rather than maintenance work. Combined with extended support cycles from Tanzu Support and bi-weekly office hours with the Tanzu team, Alight gained the confidence and capabilities to scale serverless components and accelerate delivery of new HR application features to their 4,300 corporate clients. The company plans to continue building their core products on Spring, leveraging emerging capabilities like Spring AI and Spring Data for future innovation.
