Serverless Migration: break apart your application

This article is part of a series:

• Part One — review your existing application (Wed. 09/18)
• Part Two — break apart your application (Fri. 09/20)
• Part Three — lift-and-shift (Wed. 09/25)
• Part Four — choose a deployment framework (Fri. 09/27)
• Part Five — build a strong foundation (Fri. 10/11)

In this series, we take a look at what areas you need to think about when making a “serverless migration”. First, we will touch on what you should review about your existing application, move into breaking your application apart, choose a cloud provider, choose a deployment framework, and how to build a strong foundation.

In the last article, we reviewed our existing application. Now let’s look at how to break apart our application.

Break apart your application

Once you’ve identified the areas of your application which need to change. We need to take a look at how our application is architected.

If you’re already using a micro-service architecture than things become a lot easier because you already had to move away from a monolithic architecture. However, if you’re not working with micro-services then we…