Innovation
Leaking in from the previous few paragraphs on agility, there is innovation. You know now why it is important and what you must do to deliver it. But how can Azure assist?
As mentioned, this process of yours regarding rapid innovation must rapidly innovate itself, but here are some examples from Azure on how to get closer to achieving it:
- Remember decoupling via Azure Service Bus? Well, by using topics (a type of message queue that delivers a copy of a message to each consumer/subscriber), you already enable future innovation you don’t even know about. How? Well, today you send a message to the topic, and it is processed by the consumers you know about, but tomorrow, there will be other services interested in the same message, and all they need to do is subscribe and consume the message without any other change to your architecture or services. So, if someone has an innovation workshop and comes up with a new service, they can, within hours or days, test...