What are some common challenges faced when migrating from a monolith to microservices?

Migrating microservices involves careful planning and addressing challenges such as defining service boundaries, data migration, handling communication latency, and implementing monitoring and debugging strategies.

Migrating microservices requires great planning and effort. Some challenges faced in doing so may include:

  • Defining Service Boundaries: Making the decision on exactly how to break down monolithic applications into several Service Applications.

  • Data Migration and Management: Moving out from a single database instance to a distributed data management system.

  • Handling Communication and Network Latency: Making sure that services are able to communicate with each other seamlessly and dealing with any failure in the network.

  • Monitoring and Debugging: Deployment of strong monitoring and debugging techniques for a distributed system.