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Mesh App and Service Architecture

The document discusses mesh app and service architecture, which allows for loosely connected apps and services rather than linear designs. It has emerged as a strategic trend for 2016 to facilitate scalable deployment and agile delivery across the increasing variety of digital endpoints. Mesh architecture uses microservices, containers, and virtualization to provide a seamless experience across different devices and platforms.

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Mesh App and Service Architecture

The document discusses mesh app and service architecture, which allows for loosely connected apps and services rather than linear designs. It has emerged as a strategic trend for 2016 to facilitate scalable deployment and agile delivery across the increasing variety of digital endpoints. Mesh architecture uses microservices, containers, and virtualization to provide a seamless experience across different devices and platforms.

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Mesh App and Service Architecture

According to research firm Gartner’s list, one of the strategic technological trends for the
year 2016 is the emergence of apps and services architecture that are more loosely
connected rather than linear, monolithic designs. The article examines what exactly mesh
app and service architecture is and its practical use in application delivery in the year 2016.

What is mesh app and services architecture?


There has been a quick and steady proliferation in the numbers of endpoints used to access
information via various devices and methods, and the revolution still continues. This digital
device mesh includes home electronic devices, home devices, automotive devices,
consumer wearable technology, and smart devices, such as laptops, tablets, and phones.
Additionally, there are an increasing number of apps that are being designed to work in
tandem with each other. The evolution of this digital mesh has forced IT teams to find
effective solutions, which transcend the limitations of devices and platforms to provide a
seamless user experience irrespective of the technology being used.

This necessitates the creation of an IT architectural edifice that is able to effectively support
the delivery of services and applications to the digital mesh and is going to be one of 2016’s
top IT trends. Organizations and IT teams will look towards creating a mesh app and service
architecture technology that facilitates scalable deployment and agile delivery by linking up
multiple endpoints in a way that offers consistent and seamless user experience. This
technology needs to do things faster, needs to be collaborative across the digital mesh
(integrate devices and applications), work both in and out of the Cloud and, most
importantly, be accommodating to the rapidly evolving needs of users.

Need for mesh app and services architecture


The rigid, linear architecture, like the three-tier application method which separates data,
processing, and presentation, can support older, self-contained applications. However, they
are not adequate to create scalable, agile, and distributed deployments and just cannot
support the digital mesh of the future where the apps or micro-services will exist on the Cloud.
Mesh app and services architecture is a scalable, integrated, and agile solution.

Paving the way for mesh app and services architecture


 In order to create and build an effective mesh app and services architecture,
software developers have to review the traditional server-client system and take a
hard look at how to approach it to keep pace with the evolution of the market. They
need to take into account back-end scalability and front-end experience and figure
out if the traditional client-server system is ready to take on the challenges created by
an evolving market.
 In order for IT teams to obtain the agility to face the challenges posed by the device
mesh, software containers are the key to tackle the core problems. There’s a fast-
expanding use of software containers to support developments that are responsive
and nimble, which is crucial for the creation of microservices architecture that allows
for the building of distributed, scalable applications.
 Another solution is virtualization, which facilitates the structure of numerous remote
user-space cases and provides the users with the feel and look of a seamless native
experience regardless of the platform they are using. Both software containers and
virtualization help to bring together a broad range of different access points and user
experiences under one umbrella and create a seamless native user experience
irrespective of whichever system via which they are engaging with the data.
 As the IoT expands, the software needs to become mobile, be able to work efficiently
and effectively on the move, and needs to be able to work across a wide range
of technologies, sensors, and networks. IT teams and software developers now need
to outline new service architectures to support both the back-end and front-end user
experiences and scalability. They can do so by working around software-defined
application services that can function across all on-premise and Cloud-based
architecture, thus providing users with a full-ranging web-scale performance. In fact,
some savvy innovators are already doing that today.
 Overall, the basic question that developers need to answer and work on is how to
create a coherent, seamless user experience in an environment where a ton of
different networks and apps are all firing information at each other.

Today, mesh app and service architecture has emerged as an integrated model to build
linked microservices into applications delivered coherently and seamlessly across devices in
the digital mesh. The IT environment needs a DevOps mindset to bring together and
integrate development and operations to support the agile, flexible and continuous
development, integration, and delivery of the mesh app and services architecture.
According to David Cearley, Gartner fellow and VP, it is one of the hottest topics that will
dominate tech development in the year 2016. However, according to him, there will be a
significant amount of discipline and a learning curve that will be required by everyone
involved.

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