Composable is for companies that
that know that they need to evolve the IT platforms
over time that know that the requirements change as they
go, but it's not for everybody, and we'll talk about that later.
But the idea being that you focus on the top level of the systems that
you build instead of the technologies that you actually leverage to get the job done.
Because the requirements of your business remain the same over time
you will have bits and pieces of your business that, you
know, you will always need those vital organs within the
organization, but how you get there will change over time.
So the tools to techniques, everything that
sits underneath that will change over time.
And that's really what composable is for.
It's a way of thinking about how to break the
business apart to achieve what you need as a business.
Very simply put the promise of composable
is extending the current life cycle of IT systems.
From sort of the classic 3 to 5
years out to maybe 10 years or even indefinitely because
in monolithic solutions you'll build a thing, and you'll work
with it for a while and then you'll grow out of it.
So you have to scrap the thing and build a
new thing and that's been the cycle for 20-25 years.
Getting into composable,
you actually have the advantage of building the thing out making sure that you have
all sort of the vital organs that your company needs to do its thing.
But over time then you can start to replace those pieces as you go.
So in theory, you should be able to live with the solution that you built
forever because what you start out with
will evolve into something different over time.
Not in in a revolutionary way,
but in an evolutionary way where you maybe swap out one piece or two pieces,
but not all of it.
That's what we're all aiming for
and that's something that will come to pass,
I'm sure of it.
The challenges we spend time glueing things together,
we lose sight of the real objective,
which is to create something that generates value and you know,
creating integrations.
It's something we do because we have to, but it's also something we've been doing for,
you know, 30 years or more.
Well it's thereabouts, right? And
the interesting thing is that we have not really moved much beyond that.
So when I started doing e-commerce 20 years ago,
it was all about connecting your ERP system to the e-commerce platform
and to the CRM system and all that and
that's still what composable is about.
We need all these systems to exchange data to enable each of them to go, right? So
essentially we were glueing them together, where we actually want
them to live more sort of independently of each other,
but we have to share this information.
So there's a conundrum there.
We want them like this, but we also want them like this to go. So how do we solve that?
It's something that takes up my mind at the moment.
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