Monoliths to Microservices: 4 Modernization Best Practices

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When it comes to refactoring monolithic applications into microservices, most engineering teams have no idea where to start. Additionally, a recent survey revealed that https://vfunction.com/resources/report-wakefield-why-app-modernization-projects-fail/, at an average cost of $1.5 million and 16 months of work.

These actions include identifying service domains, merging two services into one, renaming services to something more accurate and removing services or classes as candidates for microservice extraction.

Large monolithic applications need an automated, data-driven way to identify potential service boundaries.

By merging two similar services, you are able to consolidate duplicate functionality as well as increase the exclusivity of classes in the newly merged service (Image 5).

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