Refactoring a Monolith into Microservices
Refactoring a Monolith into Microservices This is the seventh and final article in my series about building applications with microservices. The first article introduces the Microservice Architecture pattern and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using microservices. The following articles discuss different aspects of the microservice architecture: using an API Gateway, inter-process communication, service discovery, event-driven data management, and deploying microservices. In this article, we look at strategies for migrating a monolithic application to microservices. I hope that this series of articles has given you a good understanding of the microservice architecture, its benefits and drawbacks, and when to use it. Perhaps the microservice architecture is a good fit for your organization. However, there is fairly good chance you are working on a large, complex monolithic application. Your daily experience of developing and deploying your application is slow and painful. [ more… ]
