Devops for Growth

Part I: Fostering Change. Examine the principles of small-batch thinking, user-centric design, and shifting from functional teams to product teams.
Part II: Cloud Native Cookbook for Leadership. Apply those principles across your organization, from creating and communicating your strategy through building your pipeline and choosing the right cloud platform.

The vast majority of web applications should start life as a Majestic Monolith: A single codebase that does everything the application needs to do. This is in contrast to a constellation of services, whether micro or macro, that tries to carve up the application into little islands each doing a piece of the overall work.

And the vast majority of web applications will continue to be served well by The Majestic Monolith for their entire lifespan. The limits upon which this pattern is constrained are high. Much higher than most people like to imagine when they fantasize about being capital-a Architects.

But. Even so, there may well come a day when The Majestic Monolith needs a little help. Maybe you’re dealing with very large teams that constantly have people tripping over each other (although, bear in mind that many very large organizations use the monorepo pattern!). Or you end up having performance or availability issues under extreme load that can’t be resolved easily within the confines of The Majestic Monolith’s technology choices. Your first instinct should be to improve the Majestic Monolith until it can cope, but, having done that and failed, you may look to the next step.

That next step is The Citadel, which keeps the Majestic Monolith at the center, but supports it with a set of Outposts, each extracting a small subset of application responsibilities. The Outposts are there to allow the Majestic Monolith to offload a particular slice of divergent behavior, either for organizational or performance or implementation reasons.

With Git platforms like Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps offered on the cloud, it is now easier than ever to create code repositories on a platform that you prefer. Devbridge can help to choose the right platform in an unbiased way.