M: Individual pieces of business functionality that are independently developed, deployed, and managed.
A: All functionality is exposed through an API.
C: SaaS that leverages the cloud, beyond storage and hosting, including elastic scaling and automatically updating.
H: Front-end presentation is decoupled from back-end logic and channel, programming language, and is framework agnostic.
Micro Services
API First
Cloud Native SaaS
Headless
To ensure that enterprises can innovate swiftly and have an agile experience roadmap, they must own a modular “swappable” architecture. This is the only way to deploy new features rapidly and retain control of their destiny.
By default, MACH, is not necessarily an all or nothing game. It isn’t a suite and allows for modular introduction. Going with a headless front-end frees commercial and marketing teams and de-risks any future changes to the “back-end”.
Below the composable elements that go into a typical commerce environment.
