Mobile Agentic Microservices – Three capabilities to verify for any workforce empowering technology adoption for 2025
It is hard to believe that “The New New Thing” was published over 25 years ago now.? There have been a lot of “New New Things” since then, the most recent of which certainly is what we have all experienced with “Gen AI”.? So, I was thinking over the break what the “New New Thing” will be in 2025.? I concluded that it isn’t so much the new thing but what capabilities that new thing uses.
For instance, you wouldn’t buy a computer that does not have Wi-Fi capabilities. You assume a house has electric power capabilities. A grocery store has refrigeration capabilities for milk and cheese. So here are three capabilities, I suggest any business verify for really anything.
An end user thing should be mobile enabled, or really, mobile first.?
Web is great and I have advocated for some time for thin clients where you only assume an end user has a browser and internet access.? However, it is a given that these days not all work is done at the office.? Whether you have a defined field force or not, people are mobile.? And if you are looking for a “new thing” to empower your workforce, mobile apps are more streamlined and capable.
If you are going to adopt something new and expect and empowered workforce, it needs to be mobile enabled.
A thing must be based on modern microservices architecture
It is easy only to care whether a thing gets the job done or not.? I agree for existing things.? But, when adopting a new thing, you want to know that it is based on where a collective industry is investing.? Having a car where no one is building roads is problematic.??
However, here is the thing, despite what people say, technology evolution is not obvious.? For example, is the future beholden to a few very large language models that we all must access or will multitudes of AI choices be available?? It is not clear.? So, in order for a thing to be future proof, it needs to be made of parts, or more specifically interchangeable parts.? This is not new; Benjamin Franklin saw this in the late 1700s when seeing a French musket maker adopt this “new thing” approach.
So, we need to make sure that a “new thing” uses this same approach.? A capability must be made of components that do a specific thing and only a specific thing and you must be able to replace a component with a newer better component or approach in the future.? In software, people refer to this as high cohesion and loose coupling.? This is opposed to one monolithic capability that provides the “new thing” capability in one big block, take it or leave it.
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It might be hard to dissect a technology to find this out, but it is easy to ask for a high-level drawing that describes each component and what it does.? Then if you see that one or more components do many things or if the communication interfaces and orchestration between components is not clearly defined, you probably have a monolithic “new thing”.? If you can see the component capabilities and communication orchestration, then you know you are on the right track with the new thing microservices architecture.
A thing must employ Agents
By now you have probably seen Satya Nadella talk about SaaS being dead and the future being agents.? There is a lot to unravel in that statement, but to me the key point is that any software application comprises a front end (UX), back end (business logic) and data.? He points to the back end becoming agents running independently of the data.? Those agents are essentially microservices that we discussed above, but they are powered by AI and can run as a function independent of current SaaS constraints.
It may sound technical.? But I think it is profound and correct.? Once you have a modern microservices architecture, a microservice can be an AI powered agent.? Basically, it is the equivalent to saying that once you have an open internet, you can build powerful capabilities such as internet commerce.
Blattner Technologies is aligning our offering to empower Mobile Agentic Microservices capabilities.
Of course, we at Blattner Technologies want our business customers to succeed in this new AI Powered world and so our Superwise AI Operating System and Supervvisor Enterprise Autonomy Platform enable these capabilities:
Mark Stadtmueller