Migrating from a Monolith to Microservices (Cloud Next '19)

Microservices enable development teams to be more agile, but it’s hard to break up an existing monolithic application or to run many services. Come to see a time-lapse refactoring of a fictional monolithic web application into decoupled services. An incremental approach and GCP serverless products for hosting, communication, and storage come to the rescue.

We will explore how to get started and use best practices for your journey to a low-ops, high-velocity future.

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Speaker(s): Martin Omander, Adam Ross

Session ID: SVR202
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[forresthopkinsa]

24:00 What they don't mention here, and what they don't mention almost anywhere, is a really important requirement of the Knative container contract that Cloud Run inherits: containers have dramatically throttled CPU outside the scope of a single request. That means that between starting up your server and handling the first request, you can't do anything. You have to initialize all your variables and everything AFTER you start handling the first request. This is almost impossible to debug if you don't know about it, so it's very frustrating that it's almost never mentioned.

[moinakbhattacharya]

An application also includes user interface and database. More often than not a database already contains few million data. How do these two elements participate with this type of architecture transition