Platform Evolution
Assessment run-2026-07-27-1 · 213 of 213 repos assessed
Repos / phenix-backoffice-integration-api

phenix-backoffice-integration-api

Universal API for communicating with Back Office to save, cancel and load booking components (currently point-to-point and insurance).

84 · greenlowloosely attachedOn-premZDD: ready with guardrailsapi

Health score

84

0 to 100 across seven weighted factors; nothing is hidden. Green is 75 and above, amber 50 to 74, red below 50. How scoring works.


Runtime currency / 25
25
Runs on supported modern .NET
Legacy transport / 15
6
Calls at least one legacy WCF endpoint
Test posture / 15
8
Some tests, coverage is thin
Security hygiene / 15
15
No credentials found in source
Dangerous coupling / 15
15
No dangerous coupling detected
Activity / 10
10
Actively maintained
Deployment hygiene / 5
5
CI in place
Health over time
2026-07-24 (run-2026-07-24-1): 842026-07-27 (run-2026-07-27-1): 84
No change since 2026-07-24 (84 to 84).

Facts

Languagescsharp
FrameworksASP.NET Core 8
Runtimes.NET 8
Tests / CIsome / CI in place
Last commit2026-04-08
OwnerOwner unknown (mapping to be curated)
DomainPlatform services (system generated; curate in repo-owners.json to override)
Product areaPhenix
HostedOn-prem Deployed to our own machines
  • Release "\commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api": QA: deployment-group phase (agents on our own machines)
  • Release "\commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api": Staging: deployment-group phase (agents on our own machines)
  • Release "\commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api": Production: deployment-group phase (agents on our own machines)
  • Release "\commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api": Training: deployment-group phase (agents on our own machines)
  • Release "\commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api": DR: deployment-group phase (agents on our own machines)
Releases1 release pipeline(s): \commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api
Integrationrest, wcf
SourceOpen in Azure DevOps

Risk flags

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Dependencies in context

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Entanglement

loosely attached Bound into the core by 1 mechanism(s).

  • Speaks WCF (client)

Detaches when its WCF surface gains a modern interface or its WCF calls move to one.

Depends on / used by

Used by (0)
No internal dependents.

Data stores
mongodb:PhenixBackOfficeIntegration_logsredis:tc-cache

Migration playbooks

Generated from this repo's assessment data: what is feasible, what blocks it, and the steps in order. Ratings: green means actionable now, amber means sequence other work first, red means blocked, grey means not applicable.

ZDD adoption

Ready with guardrails

Close: the deployment path exists, but specific checks are needed first, typically raising tests, auditing serialized data, or respecting a shared schema with expand and contract. Test coverage is thin; ZDD shifts the safety net onto automation.

Dependencies and gotchas
  • Consumes WCF contract packages: never take a breaking client bump mid-feature, and treat obsolete warnings as migration debt
Steps
  1. Adopt the four-stage discipline from the ZDD engineering standard: pre-deployment compatibility, deployment, feature activation behind a flag, post-release cleanup.
  2. Raise automated test coverage first: ZDD trades the end-of-sprint manual gate for continuous automated confidence, so the tests are the entry ticket.
  3. Make every change dual-version safe: backwards-compatible APIs (new major version for breaking wire changes), expand and contract for any schema change, and consumers tolerant of unknown fields.
  4. Audit serialized data: anything in Redis, queues or shared caches must deserialize cleanly across adjacent versions.
  5. Wrap behaviour changes in feature flags so code deploys dark and release becomes a business decision, not a deployment event.
  6. Route deployments through the Workflow Engine's automated drain, deploy, health-check, return cycle (the path proven by the first automated production run in mid-2026).
  7. Verify with area-scoped regression rather than the whole-platform cycle, and watch error rates after rollout with automated rollback on alert.

SQL Server exit

Not applicable

No SQL Server dependency is recorded for this repo. Nothing to migrate.

Containerisation

Ready to containerise

Modern runtime, no hosted legacy transport: this service can follow the estate's proven container path (Dockerfile, shared pipeline template, ECS via Terraform).

Steps
  1. Add a Dockerfile and make the app read all configuration from environment variables and the secrets manager, never from machine-local files.
  2. Log to stdout and expose a health check endpoint so ECS can supervise it.
  3. Adopt the shared ci.yml pipeline template with the container parameters (awsRegion, containerAfterBuild, ecsTerraformRepo), which is exactly how the estate's existing AWS services deploy.
  4. Define the service in the Terraform repo, deploy to a non-production environment, then shift traffic and disarm the deployment-group release pipeline.

Recommended actions

No specific actions for this repo. It either needs only normal maintenance, or its work is covered by an estate-level action. See the full programme.

Assessment notes

phenix-backoffice-integration-api

Purpose

Universal REST API sitting between Phenix and the legacy Back Office system, used to save booking components, cancel components and load components. Point To Point and Insurance component types are implemented.

Tech stack

C# on .NET 8 (net8.0), ASP.NET Core Web API with Asp.Versioning, FluentValidation, Newtonsoft.Json, Swagger. Uses the TC.ConnectionBroker suite (HttpClient, Sql, Mongo, Redis, Wcf) and many internal TC.* NuGet packages (BackOffice Integration/Facade, Customer, ExchangeRate, UserAccount, ContactCentre clients).

Deployment

One production release pipeline (\commercial\phenix-backoffice-integration-api) fed by a single build pipeline of the same name; release_count 1. Build uses shared azure-pipelines-templates CI template (the template pin still references a .NET Core 3.1 SDK version despite the net8.0 target).

Dependencies

Internal: Back Office (via TC.Phenix.BackOffice.Integration/Facade packages and WCF/SQL connection brokers) and exchange-rate-service (TC.ExchangeRate.ServiceClient). Also consumes user-account, contact-centre and Phenix provider/customer service client packages whose backing repos were not confirmed. External: New Relic APM.

Data stores

MongoDB logging database PhenixBackOfficeIntegration_logs; Redis caching via TC.Cache.Redis / specialised country and provider caches. SQL access is indirect through ConnectionBroker to Back Office databases (not owned here).

Integration points

Exposes versioned REST endpoints under /Api/PhenixBackOfficeIntegration with Swagger. Calls downstream TC services over REST HTTP clients and legacy Back Office over WCF.

Code health

Three test projects (unit tests for API, integration library and entities, plus an integration-test project); StyleCop/Sonar analyzers enforced via rulesets. Trunk-based development with PR review per README. Last commit 2026-04-08 — actively maintained.

Modernisation risks

Low risk: modern .NET 8 runtime. Main concerns are heavy coupling to a large set of internal NuGet packages (upgrade lockstep), WCF dependency on legacy Back Office, and the outdated SDK pin in the CI template parameters.