Microservices and Containers, First edition

Chapter 11

Case Study: Monolithic Helpdesk Application

In this chapter, we build a traditional web-based helpdesk application following industry standard practices. However, we build it without using the concepts we have learned so far; that is, we build a monolithic application. The idea here is to gain real-world experience. We build this application and then look at some real-world complexities such as application deployment, managing updates, and scalability. Once we understand the complexities of using monolithic architecture, we will see how these challenges can be solved using a combination of microservices and Dockers, which we will do in the next two chapters when we rebuild the application using microservices architecture and deploy ...