Consumers are no longer searching for “the one,” but for the many, and flawless infrastructure will result. Yet, when you’re “only” a little component in a tech stack, your element must work effectively with others. So how can you create the ideal composable infrastructure without getting bogged down in maintenance and integrations?
There are several components to IT’s composition. It enables you to select both the best-of-breed components and the components that perfectly suit your unique organisational requirements. Moreover, you can go headless and detach the presentation layer. As a result, it is possible to create one or more digital consumer experiences and to distinguish between frontend and backend issues.
Keep an eye out for the hidden costs
Let’s be honest, though. Composability and headless architecture are not just advantages. Giving your engineers more flexibility by switching from a monolithic to a composable architecture may also open your stack up to a plethora of integrations and bespoke fixes.
Thus, flexibility frequently costs extra complexity. Moreover, it frequently results in decreased performance, a high maintenance burden, and developer lock-in. Some people find that switching from monolithic to composable design also requires letting go of old data and content that they may have wanted to maintain. And it’s no small task to start from scratch.
It is by no means a secret that some people opt to remain on familiar ground because the cost of transferring to a new architecture is so prohibitive and that’s unfortunate especially if you’re employing systems that are almost at the end of their useful lives (EOL).
Continue to leave a legacy while becoming compostable
It must be stated that switching to a composable architecture need not entail abandoning all of its previous monolithic features. Many organisations that we’ve seen have received advice from solution partners to throw out everything they have and start over with a headless, composable design. This specifically occurs if the current stack is built on a CMS that is going EOL.
You don’t have to throw away what you already have if you’re using a CMS that has been announced to be EOL and you want to switch to a new stack with, say, a new Umbraco version. Not even when transitioning from a monolith to a composable.
Creating a new architecture that mixes your legacy data with fresh sources in a stack that can be assembled is entirely possible. Because you can make a more subtle architectural alteration instead of putting yourself at risk by making a big relocation to a foreign country. This can be accomplished with the help of Enterspeed.
Enterspeed gives you the tools to develop real flexibility. It is not flexible to ask you to throw out everything you now have and start from scratch with a new architecture. Whether it’s new or old, combining the data you need is important.
Typically, we suggest the following three steps:
1.Create a new front end.
2.Separate new sources from your current approach (using Enterspeed).
3. Maintain or modify your CMS.
Conclusion
Well, the advantages are clear to anyone considering upgrading to a new version of Umbraco. Most significantly, you’ve eliminated a great deal of complexity. In essence, you’ve prepared yourself (or your client) for an upgrade that has essentially become “standard.” Additionally, the migration itself will go a lot more smoothly and safely, and keeping up with the upgrades that will undoubtedly keep coming will be much simpler.
Whether it’s in a headless solution on a legacy system or a whole new build, Enterspeed gives partners the ability to use Umbraco CMS as part of a composable architecture.