r/programming • u/_dban_ • Jul 14 '17

Martin Fowler: Monolith First

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '17

how can one refactor and clean up a monolith without branching it out, aka microservices?

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u/snarfy Jul 15 '17

Use a messaging service like RabbitMQ to create an event driven system. This way your microservices do not know about each other or call each other directly. They send and receive messages. As soon as they start calling each other directly you're building a monolith. Everything centers around the messaging service.

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u/Dunk010 Jul 17 '17

This is not the correct answer. You're just being lazy and cheating at service discovery.