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Modernizing the Monolith - Best Practices
In Chapter 7, we explored monolithic architectures and contrasted them with microservices-based architectures. We discovered that they are very different in their approach to interprocess communication, especially when it comes to database access. As a reminder, in monolithic architectures, it is quite common to have one or a few databases with many different applications or services from different business units accessing them. In microservices-based architectures, we want to have every service leverage its own database. So, in theory, in a microservices architecture, there is a database for every service we implement.
In this chapter, we will introduce some approaches for modernizing these legacy ...
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