From Monolith to Microservices: A Real‑World Journey and Lessons Learned
This article walks through the evolution of a simple online supermarket from a monolithic website to a fully split microservice architecture, highlighting the challenges encountered—such as code duplication, database bottlenecks, and operational complexity—and presenting practical solutions like service decomposition, monitoring, tracing, gateway control, service discovery, circuit breaking, rate limiting, testing strategies, and the use of service meshes.