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Microservices Development Cookbook
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Microservices Development Cookbook

by Paul Osman
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Refactoring your monolith

A common mistake when making the transition to microservices is to ignore the monolith and just build new features as services. This usually happens when a team feels that the monolith has gotten so out of control, and the code so unwieldy, that it would be better to declare bankruptcy and leave it to rot. This can be especially tempting because the idea of building green field code with no legacy baggage sounds a lot nicer than refactoring brittle, legacy code. 

Resist the temptation to abandon your monolith. To successfully decompose your monolith by business capability and start evolving it into a set of nicely factored, single-responsibility microservices, you'll need to make sure that your monolith code base ...

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ISBN: 9781788479509