Adam Gross: Microservices architectures unlock greater product capabilities than monoliths
Adam Gross · Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017 · Jan 1, 2018 · at 8:26
Adam Gross, SVP at Heroku, discusses why non-technical executives must understand how architectural modernization directly expands their product's business value.
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“Because we have cloud nativeness, what we can now do is embrace more heterogeneity into our architecture much more easily, which in turn means we can deliver much more sophisticated and new kinds of functionality and business value than would be able to otherwise express inside of that more traditional monolithic stack. So there is a direct connection between what's happening here and the ultimate surface area and capabilities of the product that you're creating.”
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