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Decomposing Monolith NestJS API into GRPC Microservices

Alex Korzhikov

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The workshop focuses on concepts, algorithms, and practices to decompose a monolithic application into GRPC microservices. It overviews architecture principles, design patterns, and technologies used to build microservices. It covers the theory of the GRPC framework and protocol buffers mechanism, as well as techniques and specifics of building isolated TypeScript services in the Node.js stack. The workshop includes a live use case demo of decomposing an API application into a set of microservices. It fits the best architects, tech leads, and developers who want to learn microservices patterns.

Level: Advanced

Patterns: DDD, Microservices

Technologies: GRPC, Protocol Buffers, Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Turborepo

Example structure: monorepo configuration, packages configuration, common utilities, demo service

Practical exercise: refactor monolith app

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The workshop is focused on how to decompose a monolithic API into microservices.

The presenters are Alex, a software engineer with experience in frontend, DevOps, and backend technologies, and Andrew, a software engineer with experience in multiple technologies including C#, .NET, Node.js, and TypeScript.

To run the workshop locally, you need to install Node.js, NPM, Docker, Docker Compose, Protocol Buffer, and Protocol Buffer Compiler.

The agenda includes an introduction to the project's ecosystem, exploring the use case, discussing the theory and patterns of monolith and microservices, demonstrating the transformation from monolith to microservices, and summarizing the workshop.

The workshop highlights technologies such as Node.js, NestJS, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers.

The purpose of using gRPC is to demonstrate an efficient way of communication between microservices, leveraging Protocol Buffers for data serialization.

Benefits include easier deployment, independent iteration and evolution of services, technology diversity, improved scalability, and simplified onboarding for new developers.

The Strangler Fig pattern is a method for gradually refactoring a monolithic system into microservices by incrementally replacing parts of the monolith with new services until the monolith is fully replaced.

Challenges include managing dependencies, ensuring data consistency, maintaining performance, and handling the complexity of distributed systems.

You can monitor and ensure integrity by using CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, proper monitoring, and having a well-defined communication protocol between services.

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Alex Korzhikov

119 min

18 Apr, 2023

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The workshop focused on decomposing a monolithic API into microservices using NestJS and gRPC. The speaker discussed the benefits and drawbacks of monoliths and microservices, as well as principles and architecture patterns for microservices. The process of decomposing the monolith involved refactoring the code, introducing gRPC for communication, and gradually moving parts of the monolith to separate services. The workshop also highlighted the importance of testing, CI/CD pipelines, and database decomposition. Overall, the workshop emphasized the need for careful planning and testing when decomposing a monolith into microservices.

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