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Our application is adept at supporting businesses in their early stages. With small user and employee counts and simple workflow systems, our process is particularly easy to handle. Unfortunately, as your customer numbers grow, our solution would disrupt your business.
You could expect to see longer deployment times, poor system performance, and unanticipated side effects of even small system changes with our solution. Developers would now be tasked with bug fixes instead of new functionality.
This is what happens when designers fail to consider the application’s future growth.
An Overview
Why Application Architecture Matters
Good application architecture advances the growth of your business. It helps teams add features faster and supports larger numbers of users, all while reducing the risk of unknown system failures.
Poor architectural decisions lead to the following:
- Longer deployments
- Performance bottlenecks
- Increased system costs
- Developers spending too much time fixing issues
- Difficulty in bringing on developers
When your business begins to grow systematically, so do these issues.
A Common Growth Challenge
Many startups begin with a single monolithic application because it allows faster development.
At first, everything works well. User management, billing, reporting, and notifications all share the same codebase and database.
As the business expands, problems begin to appear:
- Deployments become much slower.
- A bug in one module delays updates in another.
- The shared database struggles with increasing traffic.
- New developers need more time to understand the application.
Eventually, the business needs to scale, but the application architecture limits that growth.
Build for growth.
How to Build an Architecture That Grows
A few early design decisions can reduce future problems and make scaling much easier.
| Area | Good Practice |
|---|---|
| Application layers | Keep business logic and presentation layer separate from data access layer. |
| Database | Scale for high request volume by utilizing read replicas and caching. If needed, provide different databases for different business units. |
| Modules | Make clear delineation for billing, reporting and user management modules. |
| Monitoring | Use logging, metrics, and tracing to detect issues quickly. |
| Documentation | Capture decisions around system architecture for the benefit of new team members. |
Benefits of a Scalable Architecture
When your architecture grows with your team, they are able to:
- Release new updates faster
- Have their application perform better under a higher traffic load
- Develop new features with less risk
- Keep their costs for necessary infrastructure at a minimum
- Spend more time developing rather than dealing with issues
Conclusion
Architecture choices made early on impact how easy it will be for your application to grow in the future. Considering future growth does not always necessitate a major redesign. More clearly defined modules, a structured data layer, and checks to ensure the application meets business requirements go a long way to creating an application that grows with your business without creating a lot of pain.
