Dear Reader,
I spent large parts of March on writing the article Extracting Microservices from a Modular Monolith. This article is also the basis for my talk about the same topic at the Embedded Online Conference 2025. Don’t miss this amazing conference!
My knowledge about microservices comes from three resources:
- The Microservices Guide is a collection of articles written by Martin Fowler and other experts.
- Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith, 2020.
- Vaughn Vernon and Tomasz Jaskula, Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture, 2022.
All resources target enterprise software and cloud services. You can apply many ideas to embedded systems but probably with some adaptation.
I haven’t read all of the articles and books. I have picked out the information most relevant to my work. In this newsletter, I want to share some of the articles from the collection Microservices Guide. I may cover parts of the books in later newsletters.
Enjoy reading,
Burkhard 💜