Considering Migrating a Monolith to Microservices? A Dark Energy, Dark Matter Perspective
application architecture refactoring to microservices dark energy and dark matter microservices adoptionThis is a talk that I gave at YOW! London 2202.
Let’s imagine that you are responsible for an aging monolithic application that’s critical to your business. Sadly, getting changes into production is a painful ordeal that regularly causes outages. And to make matters worse, the application’s technology stack is growing increasingly obsolete. Neither the business nor the developers are happy. You need to modernize your application and have read about the benefits of microservices. But is the microservice architecture a good choice for your application?
In this presentation, I describe the dark energy and dark matter forces (a.k.a. concerns) that you must consider when deciding between the monolithic and microservice architectural styles. You will learn about how well each architectural style resolves each of these forces. I describe how to evaluate the relative importance of each of these forces to your application. You will learn how to use the results of this evaluation to decide whether to migrate to the microservice architecture.
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To learn more about dark energy, dark matter and microservices
See these presentations:
- Mucon 2021 - Dark energy, dark matter: imperfect metaphors for designing microservices
- iSAQB keynote - Modular monoliths and microservices: architectural patterns for rapid, reliable, frequent and sustainable development
- Dark energy, dark matter and microservice architecture collaboration patterns
- QCONSF 2022: Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!
- YOW London 2022: Considering Migrating a Monolith to Microservices? A Dark Energy, Dark Matter Perspective
I’m available to help your organization adopt microservices. I provide consulting and workshops.
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