Overcoming the legacy hotspot
It is important to understand the environment and political challenges in the organization before embarking on the microservices development.
It is common in microservices to have dependencies to other legacy applications, directly or indirectly. A common issue with direct legacy integrations are the slow development cycles of the legacy application. For example, an innovative railway reservation system relaying on an age old transaction processing facility (TPF) for some of the core backend features, such as reservation. This is especially common when migrating legacy monolithic applications to microservices. In many cases, legacy systems will continue to undergo development in a non-agile way with larger release ...
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