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Monolith to Microservices
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Monolith to Microservices

by Sam Newman
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Audiobook available
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Appendix B. Pattern Index

Aggregate exposing monolith

Exposing domain aggregates from a monolith to allow microservices to access entities managed by the monolith.

Branch by abstraction

Coexisting two implementations of the same functionality in the same codebase at the same time, allowing for a new implementation to be incrementally developed until it can replace the old implementation.

Change data capture

Transmit changes made to an underlying datastore to other interested parties.

Change data ownership

Moving the source of truth from the monolith to a microservice.

Database as a Service interface

Using a dedicated database to provide read-only access to internal service data.

Database view

A view is projected from an underlying database, allowing for parts of the database to be hidden.

Database wrapping service

A facade service is placed in front of an existing shared database, allowing for services to migrate away from direct use of the database.

Decorating collaborator

Trigger functionality running in a separate microservice by sniffing requests sent to the monolith, and the responses that are sent back in return.

Dedicated reference data schema

A dedicated database to house all static reference data. This database can be accessed by multiple different services.

Duplicate static reference data

Copy static reference data into microservice databases.

Monolith as data access layer

Accessing data managed by the monolith via APIs rather than directly accessing ...

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