When to use umbrella apps?

[AstonJ]

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How do YOU use umbrella apps, and why?

I’ve been using umbrellas for a while, and generally started off (on greenfield projects at least) by isolating subapps based on clearly delineated lines. For instance, imagine building an orchestration system; one subapp responsible for managing the internal state (owns the DBs), another for public side (API, etc). But I’ve found myself opting instead to not use umbrellas in newer things, with similar complexities, opting instead to explicitly define larger supervision trees and keep related co…