Chapter 4. Microservices Evolution – A Case Study

Like SOA, a microservices architecture can be interpreted differently by different organizations, based on the problem in hand. Unless a sizable, real world problem is examined in detail, microservices concepts are hard to understand.

This chapter will introduce BrownField Airline (BF), a fictitious budget airline, and their journey from a monolithic Passenger Sales and Service (PSS) application to a next generation microservices architecture. This chapter examines the PSS application in detail, and explains the challenges, approach, and transformation steps of a monolithic system to a microservices-based architecture, adhering to the principles and practices that were explained in the previous ...

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