Software Design X-Rays

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Mark Twain

Chapter 9Systems of Systems: Analyzing Multiple Repositories and Microservices

The scale of today’s systems has led many organizations to adapt microservice-like architectures. This implies that tomorrow’s legacy codebases are going to be microservices and we should be prepared to address technical debt in a development context more complex than systems of the past.

From a 10,000-foot view there’s nothing special to microservices with respect to the analysis techniques we have covered so far. In practice, however, microservices present their own set of challenges that exaggerate potential quality issues that we could have lived with in a monolithic system. ...