Chapter 8. Managing the Application Infrastructure
In the not-so-distant past, a service and an application were often the same thing. Applications were monolithic and performed a certain set of functions (services) for their users. As web-based services appeared, along with the need for extremely fast creation and modification of services for users, organizations found that assembling services from sets of interacting applications was faster than trying to build a monolithic application for each service. Modular clusters of applications can be easily assembled to support new service offerings. This reduces development costs, speeds time to market, and provides significant development leverage. Key applications, such as an order entry system, ...
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