Making the enterprise composable
Summary
Rod Cope, CTO of Perforce, believes that instead of working at the widget level, software developers are talking about reusable databases, clouds and virtual machines. In the world of the composable business, product teams must be able to deliver custom-built software quickly to respond to new market opportunities that emerge, says Guy Sayar, CTO for the EMEA region at HashiCorp. “IT and business teams are increasingly willing to make trusted third parties part of their new and expanded infrastructures – to run their apps atop innovative runtimes and plumb in valuable services through those APIs,” he says. Simplifying API sprawl and managing multiple frameworks is possible using a platform offering common architecture patterns, a service catalogue of add-on capabilities and a series of technology contracts between development and operations teams, he adds. In the article, the pair looked at why a modular, composable e-commerce platform enables businesses to stretch their investment by buying or replacing only the features or functions that they need to create exactly the experience their brand wants to deliver.