Myths and Legends of Breaking the Monolith

Speaker(s)
Session track
Code & Development
Experience level
Intermediate
Duration
50 min

Introduction of microservices promised faster project maintenance and debugging, easier scaling, high availability and lots of good, old, developer fun. However, a huge ecosystem of sometimes mutually incompatible tools and the lack of guidelines made the concept too scary for most of the teams.

Early adopters and teams with appropriate budgets started experimenting and building their own tools. The rest of us were attending conferences and trying to get the big picture from multiple, often dissonant sources.

This session is going to try to reconcile stories from multiple clients, all trying their own flavor of transition to the service-oriented architecture, all witnessing both epic wins and failures.

The target audience is developers and software architects who are considering the transition to a service-oriented architecture. Product owners and managers would also be more than welcome, as the costs of the process will be covered, too. Finally, people who already survived to break the monolith, no matter at which position in the team, would be more than welcome to share their stories and discuss.