Break a Monolith to Microservices — 12 Best Practices and Design Principles

There was once a time when applications were traditionally developed as monoliths, being packaged into a bundle of code and deployed as a single unit; however, the complexity of sustaining a monolithic architecture coupled with product complexity and lack of speed to evolve has led to enterprises seeking new alternatives to sustainability, flexibility, and ease of integration.

While breaking a monolith and switching to microservice architecture seems easy, many enterprises tend to underestimate the overall complexity of the initiative and make catastrophic mistakes.