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An alternative to microservices: Modular monolith

December 12, 2019
editorial-team Eric Murphy Ales Nosek
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    DevNation tech talks are hosted by the Red Hat technologists who create our products. These sessions include real solutions and code and sample projects to help you get started. In this talk, you’ll learn about future-proofing applications from Eric Murphy and Ales Nosek, Architects with Red Hat Consulting.

    When building an MVP software application, you may immediately jump to a microservices architecture because it’s the new norm for building cloud-native applications. You may also be skeptical about starting off with a monolith because of the perception of such applications as relics of the past.

    In this talk, we will show how to evolve a monolithic application in a highly controlled way using modular design principles. We will also demonstrate a future-proofed Quarkus + Vert.x application that is both a monolith and microservices while using the same code and modular design.

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