5 A Cloud Guru: Architecture highlights, lessons learned
This chapter covers
- A Cloud Guru’s original REST architecture
- The reasons the team decided to migrate from REST to microservices and GraphQL
- Lessons learned through the migration
In the first edition of this book, we described a serverless LMS (Learning Management System) built by A Cloud Guru (https://acloudguru.com). At that time, A Cloud Guru built a RESTful API backend using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Google’s Firebase as its primary database. Since we published our first edition, A Cloud Guru has gone through a major transformation. The company moved from a RESTful monolithic design to a GraphQL-driven microservices architecture. This chapter describes this journey. We’ll ...
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