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Cracking the Monolith

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September 12, 2012
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Cracking the Monolith

Why and how the Guardian split it's website into many independent applications from one monolith.

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September 12, 2012
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  1. Cracking the monolith http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwanie/639469/

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  7. Javazone 2009

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  11. Failure

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  13. Monolith

  14. HTML(ish) <!--R2:microapp- component microapp="tvlistings" component="whatsonnow " pathpattern="{key:123}" --> Monolith

  15. Microapp HTML Monolith Microapp Processor

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  17. Failure

  18. Microapp Cache Microapp Monolith Microapp Processor

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  21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/7256397938/

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  23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/7256397938/

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  34. README

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  39. All All All All

  40. FEAR X

  41. Failure

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  43. http://www.tomhume.org/2009/04/tracking-uk-liberal-indecency.html

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  47. https://github.com/guardian/frontend

  48. Indexer Solr Monolith

  49. Indexer Solr Solr Solr Solr Solr Content API Content API

    Content API Content API Monolith

  50. Indexer Solr Solr Solr Solr Content API Content API Content

    API Content API SNS SQS SQS SQS SQS Monolith
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  54. http://pasteup.gu.com/

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  56. FEAR X

  57. Failure

  58. @philwills @gdndevelopers github.com/guardian