Andy Domeier is the Director of System Operations at SPS. He has been with SPS for 13 years of aggressive growth in the company and its technologies. Andy leads practices that drive continuous improvement such as Change & Incident Management as well as Reliability Engineering teams focused on the health and availability of SPS services.
The first step in moving away from monolithic codebases and towards microservices isn't (or shouldn't be) sitting down and writing code, or debating which orchestration framework you want to use. Creating an approachable plan that can be successful is critical to build the organizational support and funding needed for such an effort.
Why would you deconstruct one of your legacy systems into microservices? What would a plan look like if you did? How would you execute on that plan or put it into motion?
