About Lightweight Architectures

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Successful modern digital solutions, once likely startups starting small and agile, had to cope with accelerated growth, reaching hundreds of millions of concurrent users while still being able to compete and evolve rapidly.

Hence, they have set the bar (of technology competence) to a much higher level than traditional enterprises could then achieve.

Now, a new set of styles, patterns and practices rules modern application life-cycle targeting enterprises that are in their way to digital transformation (and competition).

Such type of enterprise architecture is being so called lightweight, in the sense that it resembles the lightness of pure blood digital solutions when compared to what has been done in large traditional companies.

#Learn from some thought leaders

• Lightweight Architecture Blueprint by Accenture

• Cloud Design Patterns by Microsoft

• Microservice Architectural Style by Martin Fowler, et al.

• The Twelve-Factor App by Adam Wiggins