Monolith to Microservices
by Sam Newman · first published 2019
60% recommend40% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Practical guide to migrating a monolith to microservices, valued for worked examples like splitting shared databases and modular single-process designs. Suited to engineers and architects planning a migration.
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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. With many illustrative examples, insightful migration patterns, and a bevy of practical advice to transition your monolith enterprise into a microservice operation, this practical guide covers multiple scenarios and strategies for a successful migration, from initi
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A few books that are relevant to your situation: * High Growth Handbook - covering the operations and biz side * The DevOps Handbook - developer effectiveness in larger orgs with examples * Monolith to Microservices - how to execute the transition * Team Topologies - how to organize teams for effectiveness My site has notes for these books and more: https://www.briansnotes.io/books/
on “Recommended books about tech company growing pains” ↗Highly recommend reading Designing Data-Intensive Apps [1] and Monolith to Microservices [2]. I can't remember which (maybe both?) but I definitely took away the idea that if services share a DB, that DB's schema is now a public interface and becomes much more difficult to evolve with new…
on “Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years” ↗…clearly the main principles for designing robust microservices architectures. If you wanted to learn how to migrate a monolith to a microservices architecture, you can also checkout Newman's more recent Monolith to Microservices (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/monolith-to-microservic...). If you want a more practical approach with JavaScript examples, I'd recommend Ashley Davis' Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker,…
on “Ask HN: Please recommend a serious book on Microservices” ↗…"there is a price that comes with microservices", "modularised monoliths are often pefect fit" etc. this is coming not from random internet dudes but from Sam Newman author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", Martin Fowler etc. Microservices/services/monoliths are one of design kinds, they best fit into different setups. References: * https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/04/microservices_last_re... *…
on “gRPC for Microservices Communication” ↗Interesting comment. By the way, Sam Newman's "Building Microservices" book now has a recently published follow-up (perhaps, a revamped version) called "Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith". I'm now starting to learn DDD and, based on my analysis of the content and excellent reviews, I have chosen "Patterns, Principles, and Practices of…
on “SRE for single-tiered software applications” ↗