Concept of Application
An application is an independently deliverable unit that serves as the smallest logical unit for development, deployment, release, and operations.
During enterprise digital transformation, R&D digitization has become essential. Organizations must connect the value delivery chain across business, product, development, and operations to drive growth and stimulate innovation. At the same time, software development management faces significant challenges. An increasing number of enterprises are exploring ways to improve development efficiency, enhance business agility, and ultimately achieve business success.
As businesses migrate to the cloud, R&D models are shifting toward DevOps. Enterprises need to establish unified development toolchains, unify the digital model, share underlying data, bridge collaboration and engineering workflows, and reconstruct the delivery chain to improve delivery efficiency, quality, and effectiveness.
Concept of Application
An application is an independently deliverable unit that provides external services. It is the smallest logical unit for development, deployment, release, and operations. During development, an application typically corresponds to one or more functional modules and is associated with one or more code repositories. At runtime, it typically maps to one or more services. For example, in an e-commerce system, the shopping cart, product details page, and ordering system are each independent applications. Multiple applications together form business systems such as Taobao, Tmall, and Alipay. Development, delivery, and operations activities are organized around applications. We recommend that each application has a designated owner and a dedicated code repository. Processes such as release management, operations monitoring, and fault accountability should be managed at the application level.