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Key Benefits of Decoupled Architecture in Ecommerce

Greg Foster and Jace Anderson dive into the nitty-gritty of decoupling monolithic architectures, explaining its benefits and talking through a couple of case studies highlighting how decoupling sets organizations up to take on the future. Watch the session replay now.

Timestamps

• 00:00 - Welcome & Introductions
• 01:14 - Challenges of monolithic platforms
• 04:09 - Telecom case study
• 07:36 - Decoupling to digitally transform business
• 12:31 - Using a phased approach for increased time to value
• 14:18 - Key benefits of decoupling your systems
• 19:40 - Healthcare case study
• 28:55 - Why choose Acro Commerce

Key talking points

The challenges of monolithic platforms

In a monolithic technology setup, there are a few big drawbacks as you start to grow beyond its limitations.

• Lack of scalability — Most monolithic platforms cannot handle large-scale growth or sudden changes in demand.
• Inability to add new features or functionality — Adding new features and functions can be time-consuming and lead to long development cycles.
• Hard to train new developers — training developers to maintain and improve your monolithic platform can be difficult as talent embraces the continued shift to composable SaaS products.
• Performance limitations — It can be problematic to have to scale the entire monolithic platform when only one service is experiencing a change.
• Slow development speed — Even small updates require changes to the source code and tests of the entire code, which takes an extraordinary amount of time.

Telecom case study

Visit our Telecommunications page to learn how we help industry leaders Telus adopt new ways of doing business that increases their time-to-value.

Digital transformation

Separating your systems by decoupling them makes it so they become independently manageable. The benefits are:

• Teams can focus on specific areas, making updating, maintaining, and troubleshooting each component easier.
• Decoupling streamlines processes
• Safeguards against cascading failure
• Decouple services as it makes sense, one at a time or multiple at once.
• Work on systems in parallel
• Choose from best-in-breed & best-of-need for your exact business
• Incremental changes for faster development

Phased approach for increased time-to-value

The goal is to get to market as soon as possible.

The solution is a phased component-based approach with a SaaS provider to accelerate the commerce side of the build.

Key benefits of decoupled architecture

• Easy integrations
• Front-end flexibility
• Improved user experience
• Improved speed & useability
• Scalability
• Improved use of non-technical resources

By using a decoupled accelerator like Gesso, your marketing and content teams have less reliance on developers to handle content and frontend updates, increasing the speed at which you can test marketing messages or speak to new audiences.

Healthcare case study

Using our decoupled accelerator Gesso, we brought the Provincial Health Services Authority’s two proof-of-concept development projects to market in an unheard-of 85 days. Simultaneously. Check out the details here.

Questions about decoupled architecture?

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