Extracting a microservice from a 15-year-old monolith: a one-year adventure

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A team describes extracting a microservice from a 15-year-old monolith, covering the full year-long process. They explain moving from an initial modular split to solving transaction boundary breaks, handling SQL JOINs, and mitigating async API latency by using event-driven architecture, redesigning the data model, and adding an integration layer.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:16Extracting chat module
3. 7:40Breaking monolith links
4. 16:04Splitting SQL queries
5. 27:53Splitting transactions
6. 37:20New service extraction
7. 40:51Recommendations and summary
8. 41:33Q&A

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