Publisher Insight has released a new book, 'Architecture Evolves,' which explains the structure of IT systems through the lens of evolutionary change.

The book describes IT systems as an evolutionary process rather than a list of individual technologies. It says IT systems differentiate into database, middleware and application layers, much as a single-celled organism differentiates into an entity with organs. It adds that differentiated systems reconnect to form corporate information flows, like multicellular life forms forming clusters. In the final stage, it says cloud and AI expand systems into a new dimension on top of that flow.

Author Sang-hwi Kong (공상휘) has turned into a book lectures he has repeated in training new hires over about 20 years in the IT field.

Kong majored in biology and occupational health before entering the IT industry. Starting at Daewoo Information Systems, he worked at Penta System Technology, TmaxSoft, Encore Consulting, Inzent, TmaxTibero and TmaxCloud, experiencing a range of technologies and structures in enterprise IT systems. He has broadly carried out consulting, solution development and commercialisation across areas from MIS and SI development to BPM, ESB, SOA, application frameworks, BI, DBMS, big data, cloud and AI.

He previously served as head of strategy at TmaxSoft and is now in charge of AI technology development and business at Okestro.