# Monolith vs Composable Commerce

# About me - Jisse Reitsma - Founder of Yireo - Training developers - Magento / Adobe Commerce - Shopware / Symfony - React / Vue - Open source extensions

# Monolith - Frontend & backend integrated in one system - Magento Admin Panel and Luma frontend team - Shopware Administration and Storefront - Examples - Magento - Shopware

# Composable Commerce - Cloud-native - Component-based - Technology-agnostic - Examples - Alokai (Vue Storefront) - DEITY

# Composable Commerce - Cloud-native - - Component-based - CRM, ERP, PIM, ... - Technology-agnostic - Headless with React or Vue

# Benefits of composable commerce - More flexibility - Choose your own e-commerce

# Definition: Monolith "A large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument."

# Definition: Monolithic application "A single unified software application that is self-contained and independent from other applications, but typically lacks flexibility."

# Definition: Composable commerce "Composable commerce is a development approach of selecting best-of-breed commerce components and combining them into a custom application built for specific business needs."

# A typical Magento "monolith" - Magento backend - Magento frontend with Hyvä theme - PHP-FPM - Nginx - MySQL - Redis - ElasticSearch - Varnish - (RabbitMQ) - (Load balancers) - (CDN)

# An example composable commerce shop - PIMcore - CommerceTools e-commerce backend - React frontend using GraphQL API - Headless CMS - Custom ERP - Custom CRM

# An example headless monolithic shop - PIMcore - Magento e-commerce backend - React frontend using GraphQL API - Custom ERP - Custom CRM - Headless CMS

# So, what is the difference?

# A hype?

# Definition: Hype "A situation in which something is advertised and discussed in newspapers, on television, etc. a lot in order to attract everyone's interest"

# Hypes in the past - Service Oriented Architecture - Microservices - Headless

# Composable Commerce beyond the hype - MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) - PBC (Packaged Business Capabilities)

# Does Magento/Shopware support microservices? Yes. Note that microservices are not standardized, so every microservice requires its own integration.

# Is Magento/Shopware built with API-first approach? Magento 2, no. Shopware 6, yes.

# Is Magento/Shopware cloud-native? No, they are written at-first with a server-based architecture in mind

# Is Magento/Shopware cloud-ready? Yes, they run fine on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes

# Does Magento/Shopware offer a headless solution? Yes, Magento offers PWA Studio, Shopware offers Frontends, or you built something custom

# Choose what fits you best - What is needed - How much does it cost - What feels right The terms monolith and composable commerce lead you away from the fact that you need to make this choice