The cloud era
The cloud is boosting productivity and changing the components and tools used in application architectures, which, in turn, are affecting the way software is designed.
As a matter of fact, according to Gartner’s research, the total cloud market will reach something around 600,000,000,000 (billion) USD of overall revenue before 2023 with a double-digit percentage increase year by year.
As outlined in the previous chapter, user requirements are evolving, growing, and changing, and as a consequence, the technology paradigms, standards, and patterns are following the user requirements and evolving in parallel. In this chapter, we are going to have a detailed look at the impact market change has had on technology and software development, specifically identity.
We’ll start by viewing the present-day technology from a high-level point of view, regardless of the specific identity. If we think about IT a few years ago, there was the concept of a system...
