Atul Agrawal
4 min readMay 16, 2022

Monolith to Micro Services Journey — Key Takeaways

In this blog post, I am going to share the key takeaways that I have learnt after doing the retrospective of architectural changes that was done by my team over the years.

Original Architecture

Original architecture goes back to time (~Y2010) when it was very common to have monolith architecture and service oriented architecture was trending up.

The original architecture had a big service that used to host business logic for different capabilities. This service was dependent on a…