Why Your Business Needs an Evolutionary Architecture for Your Digital Assets
The build it and leave it mentality no longer works.
Your software is an asset. The thing with digital assets is that despite their perception of being something permanent and unchanging and that you just need to build it once and call it a day, all technology ages with time.
Why? Because new technology gets released. There are more devices, more interfaces, more portals, and more users than ever before.
There’s a high chance that you wouldn’t use a touch screen phone that was released ten years ago. Time has the same aging effect for your digital assets.
Some digital assets age better than others, but these are generally limited to applications and software that are architectured in an evolutionary methodology.
What’s Evolutionary Architecture?
Evolutionary architecture is a software and application design methodology that allows for your digital assets to adapt and grow in a constantly changing environment. This change is often caused by new releases in technology, tools, ideas, techniques, and frameworks.
In addition to this, the software and application needs to be able to adapt to market requirements, business pivots, and any other consumer and user-based demands.
When you commission monoliths, you get a rigid architecture that isn’t flexible towards change. When you build with an evolutionary architecture, you are developing an ecosystem of apps that are modular in nature and can be exchanged out when they no longer fit the purpose or have aged beyond their prime.
However, the perk of this is that the rest of your software remains relevant. The incremental and modular structure means that you can add more pieces over time without breaking what’s already been developed.
The software’s rate of depreciation decreases over time and its overall shelf life is prolonged with an evolutionary architecture approach.
How Does it Impact Your Business?
How easy it is for your software to change when new requirements are introduced really depends on its architecture.
The reason why startups can pivot so quickly and produce new software at a breakneck pace is that they’re not held back by the legacies and the weight of old systems. By design, older systems were not made to be elastic.
In part, this is because growth and market changes were not occurring at the current speed we’re experiencing.
Globalization and the market penetration of devices have never occurred at this scale before. Most software created more than ten years ago did not have the technology or methodology to deal with it.
Companies that prioritized the implementation of evolutionary architecture prevented the Darwinistic effect of an aging system. It gives businesses the velocity required to move forward in front of their competitors and any popup startups that may pose a competitive risk to their revenue streams.
When your software and infrastructure is built with an evolutionary architecture approach, it is much more robust in nature and design.
How SRG Software can Help You Develop and Implement Software that’s Adaptable & Scalable
At SRG Software, our developers are more than just developers.
Why is this important for your business?
Because, in order to create software that’s highly adaptable and has the ability to evolve with demand, the team creating the software needs to be able to predict and think beyond what’s presented at inception within the context of business strategy and goals (long and short-term).
Our developers don’t just code. They are digital architects that are able to design infrastructure and software that is elastic in nature and resilient against the aging effects of time.
Talk to us today. No matter the current state of your system, we can help you assess and transform your applications into solutions that are able to evolve over time to meet changing functional and scale demands.
Co-authored by:
Dave Wesley ~ President, SRG
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Aphinya Dechalert ~ Marketing Communications, SRG
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