Building Evolutionary Architectures

Sell The Platform

PenultimateWidgets is in the process of rebuilding their core platform, incorporating some key features that will appeal to others in a similar problem space. PenultimateWidgets plans to sell their platform to other companies, but worry that the differentiating factors (such as performance, scale, and elasticity) will suffer as clients start making changes to the platform, ultimately harming PenultimateWidgets platform's reputation. How can they sell their platform and still ensure that the critically important characteristics remain unchanged?

• Categories: triggered, holistic
• Requirements:
• PenultimateWidgets must ensure that clients meet the same system level agreements over a variety of architectural characteristics.
• Additional Context:
• PenultimateWidgets has a rich set of fitness functions and a well constructed deployment pipeline.