Your team decided it’s time to get rid of that old, clunky monolith (finally!). You had a good run with it, but the monolith has grown so big that you’re spending more effort maintaining it than adding features. Here are 12 tips for making the transition to microservices smooth as possible: Ensure you know what you’re getting into, make a plan, put everything in a monorepo, reduce the complexity of your monolith, modularize your monolith, use feature flags, divide your monolith into domains, measure and instrument your monolith, cultivate a DevOps culture, leverage the cloud, train your team, and embrace a service-oriented architecture. With some preparation and careful planning, your monolith can evolve into a more flexible and scalable architecture that better meets the needs of your growing business.
