How to extract a data-rich service from a monolith

As people get more interested in microservices, there is a growing
interest in how to split up an existing monolith into microservices. A
few months ago Zhamak Dehghani explored the basic
strategy of breaking a monolith into microservices. Now Praful Todkar,
another of my colleagues, delves into the details of how you do a service
extraction - specifically when that service includes part of the
monolith's database. He breaks the process down into a series of steps,
starting by identifying the logic and data items that need to be
extracted. We'll be releasing further installments of this article,
outlining the various steps, over the next couple of weeks.

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