MACH Architecture - Why businesses should take note

Are you looking to reduce your operating costs, increase flexibility, and improve performance across your businesses digital solutions? If so, then you need to start taking note of MACH Architecture. This modern approach to building digital solutions is revolutionising the tech industry, and for good reason.

MACH stands for Microservices-based, API-driven, Cloud-native, and Headless architecture.

Why should you care?

• Ease of change - MACH architecture allows you to efficiently change bits of your digital landscape that are not performing, without toppling over your business, or causing huge time delays.
• Speed of development - The tech stacks that run on MACH platforms are modern tooling such as React, Next.js, Vue.js. The momentum in which development can progress is staggering, because the platform and its services are fully functional out the box.
• Launch features simultaneously - Structured in the right way MACH architecture can enable parallel releases that don’t impact one another.
• Lightning performance - As the services that power the experiences are cloud native, and the experiences themselves are developed in what is called a headless architecture, there is no direct connection between what the customer sees and where the data/service comes from. This means blazing performance speeds all round.

Where to start?

Often businesses get excited about MACH and the possibilities, but when reality kicks in and they start to look at the feasibility of changing, it’s often deprioritised.

The beauty of MACH architecture is that you can portion off one part of your business's digital experience to migrate over to a more flexible MACH approach, without affecting your other services, all relatively easy. At Freestyle we recommend slicing off one market, language or even product line to build and launch a new MACH enabled tech stack.

If you’re interested in finding out more about MACH Architecture and exploring the benefits it could offer your business, let's talk. Drop us a line: [email protected]