Surgery on the Living Backbone – Microservice-Transformation of Mission Critical Systems

Big enterprises have accumulated many large monoliths over the years. These are key for daily business – in short: Mission Critical. But pressure to modernize and transform into modern architectures is increasing. Reasons are manifold: From better time-to-market to replacement of outdated languages, where developers and tools are aging.

For major transformations, there aren’t many published success stories. Such an endeavor remains a big challenge. We have accumulated knowledge about conception and implementation of these Mission Critical Backbone modernizations over different archetype of systems from mainframes in Cobol to the “younger” JEE ecosystem. In our talk we will share lessons learned garnished with stories from real project life.