Breaking the monolith

Jun 19, 2020

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drawing - text: Splitting a monolithic app without clear bounded contexts... - ...is like building wooden cabins with highways in between.

Microservices won't fix all your problems! You will just move the complexity in between the services.

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BREAKING THE MONOLITH

Panel 1

[Left panel: a grey office building under a blue sky with clouds]

Narrator: "SPLITTING A MONOLITHIC APP WITHOUT CLEAR BOUNDED CONTEXTS..."

Panel 2

[Right panel: small wooden cabins on either side of a wide grey highway]

Narrator: "...IS LIKE BUILDING WOODEN CABINS WITH HIGHWAYS IN BETWEEN."