Monolith to microservices: How HomeDepot.com made the switch

Youve read how unicorns like Netflix and Spotify have implemented microservices, but how does that apply to the rest of us horses. Christopher Grant explains how HomeDepot.com approached a migration from a monolithic architecture to a microservice-based platform.

There are tons of articles and presentations about the new stack of microservices and containers. Cutting-edge players like Netflix and Spotify paint beautiful pictures of the ideal state, while tutorials make things look so simple. What happens when the rest of us want to take advantage of the new patterns? How do you bring the new tools and technologies into your organization? How do you migrate a critical running platform to these new patterns? Christopher Grant explores how HomeDepot.com adopted new patterns and technologies in order to align itself with more modern architectures and discusses some of the challenges he and his team overcame and the successes that have resulted. This isn’t a talk about how the unicorns implemented an ideal tech stack. It’s about how the horses dealt with impending change. It’s about the realities HomeDepot.com faced and adjustments it made. More importantly, it’s about the reason for the journey, lessons learned, and value the effort created. You’ll leave with insights about transitioning from monolith to microservices that you can take back and apply within your own organization.