Microservices Challenges in Traditional Enterprise

Monoliths are not bad and Microservices are not that great. Reflecting on architecture, design and operationalizing Microservices in traditional enterprises.

The primary drivers for adopting agile methodologies, DevOps, Microservices, containerization, cloud adoption is to provide value to our end-users and customers at the earliest. Time to market is critical for the business to stay on top of the competition.

Monoliths are not bad and Microservices are not that great; Microservices adoption needs great level of engineering maturity, that is the reason "You must be this tall to use Microservices".

Monolith or Microservice

The great dilemma for architects, designers, and developers when it comes to making the Architectural decision.

Infrastructure Support

This is fundamental to organizations' Microservices adoption. Without automated provisioning of your infrastructure, your team will not be able to get the goodness of Microservices.

Engineering – Architecture, Design, Build

Microservices architecture needs Architects to understand business problems with the lens of Domain Driven Design (DDD), Domains and Subdomains, Bounded Context and Context maps.

Preparing for Operational Challenges

Architecture is abstract unless it is operational.

Productionizing Microservices comes with its own challenges:

  - Handling downstream failures

  - Scaling in-out based on demand

  - Rolling out new features

  - Service observability

  - Log aggregation and surfacing information to product teams

Conclusion

Microservices challenges in traditional enterprises are real but let us take the bold step.