Protected: From Monolith to Microservices: Lessons the Industry Has Learned the Hard Way

Microservices promise greater agility, scalability, and team autonomy—but the journey from monolith to microservices is rarely straightforward. Drawing on more than two decades of enterprise software experience, Ketankumar Savajiyani highlights five hard-earned lessons: define boundaries around business capabilities, migrate incrementally, establish data autonomy, invest in observability, and continuously protect service ownership.