Migrating Enterprise Apps to the Cloud: from monolith to modular

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The cloud movement is no longer just buzz and hype. Organizations are increasingly planning cloud-based deployments. For greenfield development, the path is relatively clear, but what about existing apps? The monolithic multi-tier architecture so common for enterprise apps is not the best fit for the cloud. For one thing, the presentation layer is typically moving to the client side. With cloud-based messaging and NoSQL datastore options, the data access and integration layers might require renovation as well. Meanwhile the significant investment that a business would most like to salvage is in the service layer sandwiched in the middle. In this session, we’ll explore this space while migrating a hypothetical application to run in the cloud. The starting point will be a fairly standard multi-tier Spring MVC application, and the end result will be a collection of services running in the cloud. We’ll discuss REST, JSON, NoSQL, messaging, polyglot development, and modular architectures designed to run in a dynamic always-on environment.

Mark Fisher

Mark has been a member of the Spring team for over a decade, contributing to the Spring Framework and several other projects. He founded Spring Integration in 2007 and is one of the authors of Spring Integration in Action, published by Manning in 2012. Currently he co-leads Spring Cloud Data Flow and contributes to other Spring Cloud projects.