Why read Monolith to Microservices?

Book cover of Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

Book description

How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman's extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.

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Why read it?

1 author picked Monolith to Microservices as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Magnus Larsson

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No matter how advanced our tools for developing resilient and scalable microservices become, the million-dollar question remains: How do we effectively break up a monolith into microservices?

This book offers excellent guidance on this challenge. I found its starting point grounded in Domain-Driven Design and its concepts like Bounded Contexts and Aggregates particularly valuable. These concepts are key to mapping microservices to a real-world domain model. I also appreciate Sam’s advice, to begin with a few relatively large microservices aligned with Bounded Contexts and only break them into smaller services when there’s a clear business case for doing so.

From Magnus' list on mastering Java and Spring-based microservices.