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Published inAug 2017
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Jarosław Krochmalski
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Jarosław Krochmalski

Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant in Danish company 7N as an IT architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl. I would like to say hello to my friends at 7N and Nykredit, keep up the great job!
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Monolithic versus microservices

We begin the comparison by starting with the description of the monolithic architecture to present its characteristics.

The monolithic architecture

In the past, we used to create applications as complete, massive, and uniform pieces of code. Let's take a web MVC application for example. A simplified architecture of such an application is presented in the following diagram:

As you can see, the diagram presents the typical web application, a fragment of a banking system in this case. It's the Model View Controller (MVC) application, consisting of models, views, and controllers to serve up HTML content back to the client's browser. It could probably also accept and send the JSON...

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Jarosław Krochmalski

Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant in Danish company 7N as an IT architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl. I would like to say hello to my friends at 7N and Nykredit, keep up the great job!
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