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Setting your mission

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Setting your mission

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- [Instructor] We know that we want to turn our monolithic shop application into a set of microservices, but before we get technical and get started, why would we want to do this? Let's first agree on some reasons why we even putting all the work into it. A lot has been written already about microservices and splitting up monolith, and you'll find the whole course by me on the topic in the library. Please be aware that microservices aren't the silver bullet and while they have benefits, they can easily also turn into a nightmare if not used wisely. That said, I want to lead into this course with two simple goals. First goal is I want to increase scalability. Monolithic applications can be challenging to scale. We aim to transform application into microservices to make it easier to scale different components independently based on their respective needs. This means for me that we want to build our system in such a way…

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