Trends Report

Application Modernization, Service By Microservice

Incremental Application Modernization Succeeds Where Wholesale Rearchitecting And Replatforming Failed

November 20th, 2015
Kurt Bittner, null
Kurt Bittner
Randy Heffner, null
Randy Heffner
With contributors:
Christopher Mines , John Rymer , Derek Nahabedian , Ian McPherson

Summary

Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders face a frustrating balancing act: deliver new applications ever faster while keeping the older ones technologically relevant. Rewriting older applications is financially and pragmatically impossible, yet delivering new capabilities often requires organizations to wring new life from older applications. Modularizing and incrementally modernizing older applications provides organizations with the time and the means to keep older applications fresh and adapted to new purposes.

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