This article identifies different ways applications become too large and complex to support and enhance. It turns out that the tactics for refactoring and restructuring an application differ depending on its type.

This book, written by our managing director, describes how applications that are composed of smaller, more manageable services are properly designed and implemented.

This article details how Amazon made the migration from a large monolithic architecture to using a library of more managable services. While Amazon is far larger than most companies, the tactics they use can effectively be adopted on a smaller scale.

This article details how SoundCloud, a much smaller and leaner company than Amazon, successfully bnroke their large and unmanageable application into smaller microservices. This article not only deals with technical details, but also illuminates how the small company exponentially increased its development velocity.

This article details how Netflix implemented a microservice architecture and many of the lessons it learned along the way.

This is our Github account where we make available products we use internally to diagnose issues and break monoliths.