Practical Event-Driven Microservices Architecture: Building Sustainable and Highly Scalable Event-Driven Microservices

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H. F. Oliveira RochaPractical Event-Driven Microservices Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7468-2_2

2. Moving from a Monolith to an Event-Driven Architecture

Hugo Filipe Oliveira Rocha¹  

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Ermesinde, Portugal

 

This chapter covers:

• How to incrementally adopt an event-driven architecture

• How to decide what functionality to move first

• How to move data from a monolith to a microservice architecture in an event-driven mindset

• Using CDC (change data capture) to move data

• Using events as the source of truth for both the old and new architecture

• How to deal with event-driven microservices that need monolith’s data and vice versa

• How to gradually move traffic ...