Things to consider when migrating from Monolith to Microservices
Monolithic applications are still overwhelmingly widespread in IT industry, since the most applications have legacy past and had been built with standards of their era. Microservices is trending software architecture pattern that become industry standard for greenfield projects. Many teams tend to migrate old Monolithic applications to Microservices, which is the topic of my todays blog.
There are some points to consider before starting this kind migration to see if it really makes sense to invest so much effort and time of the it team.
- Monoliths are not your enemy. If the application does it job, it is not a complex, tightly coupled, historically grown application you might not need to migrate it.
- Microservices bases on API connections over distributed systems. It has its own bottlenecks like, latency issues, network security, internet loads etc. You should consider these points if it really makes sense to deal with all these pain points.
On the other hand, Microservices will help you with some improvements in your application’s lifetime such as, faster deployment, decoupled business contexts, individual scalability etc. You can deep dive in best practices in building Microservices in my other blog post:
