Splitting Monolith Applications to Microservices: Gains and Challenges from Practical Experience

Explore a practical analysis of splitting monolithic applications into microservices in e-commerce and financial business domains. Learn about the motivation, goals, and criteria for initiating the splitting process, as well as the optimal order for extracting microservices. Discover how to organize the entire process in closed iterative steps using Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Kafka messaging technologies. Gain insights from Software Architect Andrei Shakirin's experience at VMWare Tanzu Labs in this 41-minute conference talk from ISTA Conference, addressing key topics such as determining the necessity of splitting, identifying markers to begin the process, and implementing effective strategies for microservice extraction.