Marriage of Application Delivery and Service Mesh

From developer’s diary

I thought “why me?”, when business came back and asks for a new set of microservices and replace an existing one, to cover the new direction they were willing to head in. That immediately reminded the hell of rewriting the original monolithic application to microservices two years back, only this time it’s much worse.

Back then we had a humongous Java application and a single MySQL database. There was of course a lot of spaghetti in the code, but with help of modern IDEs we could make sense of what’s going on. Our deployment script was as if from early Paleolithic period, but since there were so little moving parts, it was surprisingly very well manageable.

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