Monolith to microservices: Breaking down apps the useful way

2 · Red Hat · Jan. 17, 2024, 7:37 a.m.
“Don’t break your toys… unless it’s to have 2 playable toys.” A significant part of my 10-year career as a consultant in middleware and applications development has been centered on microservices architectures, still an important topic for IT modernization nowadays. At the very beginning, it was important to just explain the concepts, what it was about and why it wasn’t just another way to speak about service-oriented architecture (SOA). Then came best practices, patterns, and pitfalls. Some p...