How App Strategies Are Evolving - InformationWeek

The nature of applications and the way humans interact with them has changed based on the technologies available and the philosophies of the era. There's been a shift from monolithic enterprise applications to SaaS applications and apps, both of which provide users with more choices than they've had before. Instead of adapting work styles to an enterprise application's rigid design all the time, users have been able to choose SaaS options and apps that enable them to do their jobs faster and more effectively. Enter microservices, and the decomposition of applications is even more granular. "I think the biggest thing for any type of decomposition at this level is the key criteria for how granular you go and what makes sense," said Jimmy Pham, principal director of cloud platforms and application modernization at global management and IT consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. "From a pure application architect perspective, I always work with a team to define a domain-driven design, down to the context of what makes sense to be encapsulated in an independent function."