Break Free From Your Database Monolith With Microservice Architectures

Dustin Brown

After years of development and iterations, monolithic SQL Server databases can become suboptimal and unscalable due to technical debt. Decoupling such a multi-terabyte database is not a simple task. Efficient migration processes, separating logical and physical schemas, handling joins, and managing multi-application dependencies can make this effort challenging, especially when an organization’s culture sustains the monolith. In this session, we will explore common issues and strategies for managing a single, shared database. Next, we will demonstrate how to decouple a monolithic database and migrate it to a microservices architecture using purpose-built tools and databases. We will leverage both relational and non-relational databases such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB.