Agile application
An agile application is a set of small, independent services that work together. Because the services are loosely connected and guided by a separate orchestration layer, the system is easy to modify to meet changing business needs and to scale.
These services use common communication methods and share a common data model to make integration simple. The orchestration layer coordinates how the services work together to implement business rules.
The architecture is decoupled, which helps with fault tolerance and scalability. For example, you can run multiple instances of a service so if one fails, another can take over, helping keep the system available. For stateless services, this makes uptime easier to maintain. If performance is slow, the team can target the bottleneck services for fixes rather than trying to fix the whole system.
In agile development, each work cycle can focus on a single service, and several cycles can run in parallel for faster delivery. Agile emphasizes being responsive and customizable rather than sticking to a fixed, rigid production system.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 07:42 (CET).