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Transforming a Monolithic Web Application into a Microservices Version
Now that you know the possibilities of microservices, you probably have existing monolithic web applications that you would like to rebuild to better meet user and stakeholder requirements. For example, that reporting application where the user has to wait minutes until a PDF report is ready. Or that credit check application that consults an external Application Programming Interface (API) for credit data that makes the user have to wait minutes before he can continue.
Such applications are good candidates for rebuilding. Fortunately, rebuilding is a relative term here and amounts more to transformation, where you reuse the existing code as much as possible.
In this chapter, ...
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