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Cracking the monolith: challenges in data transitioning to cloud native architectures

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Mayank Mishra,

Shruti Kunde,

Manoj NambiarAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA '18: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3241403.3241440

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Application modernization is the process of transforming a monolithic application to cloud native. This involves gradually building a new application consisting of microservices, and running it in conjunction with the monolithic application. Over a period of time, the functionality of the monolith shrinks drastically or transforms into yet another microservice. Solution architects are often faced with the task of ensuring this smooth transition - from monolith to cloud native. For large and complex monoliths, this task is non-trivial as the code base grows non-linearly over a period of time, thus posing multiple challenges.

The complexity of a monolith is moved to the interconnections between microservices, leading to multiple points of failure. This also has implications on scalability and the need for replication. One of the biggest challenges is to maintain data consistency and statefulness across the services and enable a smooth transition of the data. Tracing performance issues also becomes complex as a single transaction can encompass multiple service calls, along with increased operational complexity due to increased demand of managing services.

In this paper, we envision an automated approach that will enable a smooth transition from the monolith to microservices, thus alleviating the complexities faced by a solution architect. Our system leverages the existing data schema along with details obtained using profiling tools (in production or development environment), to understand the data flow and access patterns and use this information to to propose functional modules (microservices).

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ECSA '18: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings

September 2018

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ISBN:9781450364836

DOI:10.1145/3241403

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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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