Thin backend for rich clients

Unlike web applications, rich clients need to be deployed as monoliths. Any change in the Microservices would require a fresh deployment of the client application. Unlike web applications where each Microservice consists of a user interface, it is not the case for mobile or desktop applications. Moreover, structuring the teams in a manner that each team has a frontend developer for each rich client that the application can be deployed to is not feasible.

A way in which this dependency can be minimized is by having a backend for the rich client applications which is deployed with the application:

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