6 Lessons I Learned on My Journey from Monolith to Microservices
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Six practical lessons with concrete claims and case studies: migration of a large trading system to microservices over 12–18 months, a desktop CAD rewrite when evolution fails, and DevOps impact backed by numbers (elite teams deploy 208× more, 106× faster lead time, 2,604× faster recovery, 7× lower failure rates). Covers Docker, Kubernetes, Azure and AWS, .NET Core, MySQL, Node.js and Python tradeoffs, patterns for data ownership, versioning and messaging. Emphasizes evolution over revolution, CI/CD from day one and avoid distributed monolith.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Start
- 4:48Microservice Architecture (MSA) Evolution
- 6:38Microservice Architecture - Some Principles
- 8:19Private Data Ownership
- 9:05The Hype of Microservices
- 9:48Why Move to Microservices?
- 11:03Answer #2 - It's Easier/Faster
- 11:34There is a learning Curve...
- 13:05Answer #13 - Scale
- 16:22Evolution or Revolution. That is the Question!
- 18:02Case Study - Breaking the Monolith (Evolution)
- 20:18Case Study - Rewrite (Revolution)
- 23:13What is DevOps?
- 23:31Main DevOps Practices
- 25:14How Agile is Agile?
- 28:00DevOps is Key - Elite vs. Low Performers
- 29:18Automation is King
- 32:06Steep Technology Learning Curve
- 33:36Wind of Change
- 35:15Microservices Are NOT the Wild West...
- 41:30Microservices Need to be Governed
- 42:21Microservices Architecture
- 42:54Learn the Essence of what is Microservices
- 44:53Real-World Example - The Fix
- 46:18Takeaways
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