Software Architecture: Breaking a Monolith into Microservices

Course details

Microservices are the increasingly popular software architecture choices when creating a new application, but what about existing applications? Does it make sense to split them up into microservices? And how would you go about breaking up monolithic applications? In this course, Daniel Khan covers effective approaches for adopting microservices, taking a high-level look at the fundamentals without getting into programming languages, container runtimes, Kubernetes, or other technical minutiae. Instead, he takes a holistic approach to give you a general understanding of the technical and organizational challenges you need to address in order to successfully re-architect your existing platforms to microservices.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Embark on a journey to refactor your architecture

1. Understand the Status Quo and the Project Goals

02 - Welcome to your new role
03 - Start with the why
04 - Defining the project scope
05 - Mapping out the current architecture

2. Splitting Capabilities into Services

06 - Design mistakes and how to avoid them
07 - Refactor or rewrite
08 - Choosing your first migration target
09 - Splitting out your first service
10 - Zero downtime migrations
11 - Migrating interdependent, complex capabilities
12 - Providing a migration API layer
13 - What about the front end
14 - Making the final step

3. Required Operational and Organizational Maturity

15 - It's not just about code - Meet Mr. Conway
16 - Provide up-to-date API documentation with Swagger
17 - Streamline cross-team collaboration with Inner Source
18 - Continuous integration and deployment
19 - Why you need monitoring from the very start

Conclusion

20 - Apply your knowledge