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Author: Jovan Vulin

Java Developer @ NTT Data

Jovan is a senior software developer with 6+ years of experience. He worked with a number of technologies both on the backend and on the client side, and in teams of different sizes on developer and team lead positions. The scrum master was certified and he had the opportunity to complement the development in that role. Mostly working according to agile methodologies. A good team player, full stack developer, and Java is the language of choice.

Jul 16 2018

From Monoliths via Self-Contained Systems to Microservices

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Monoliths

Most code starts out as a monolith. This was my experience as well while working on a self-service application for a big telecommunication provider. Idea was to have a separate application where we will expose a lightweight REST API for our modern frontend (Angular 1 at that time). This consumer services application was supposed to be a bridge between CRM and SOAP powered web services and a lightweight client application that we developed using Angular. Without knowing full boundaries of our domain or the extent to which it will grow we started exposing REST services and it seemed like a good approach.

So what is a monolith?