In the previous chapter, Steve had been asked to provide a comparison of costs and resources needed to migrate to a commercial system versus modernize the current system. He works […]
Low-Risk Monolith-to-Microservice Evolution, Part 1
In designing and organizing a two-day workshop on microservices, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. […]
Microservices Days coming to a city near you
Microservices is rapidly becoming a design paradigm for developing software. While there are many benefits to microservices designs, it is more complex than traditional application design. For this reason we […]
Sharding for Scale: Architecture Matters
In the days of monolithic applications, scale was simple. As every instance of the app was the same, it really didn’t matter which one processed a request, as long as […]





