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Migrating to microservices at MACH-speed

How to successfully lead a microservices migration.
December 02, 2024

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

“There was no way to maintain that without a sledgehammer,” says Gus Fune, Chief Technology Officer at DivBrands.

How do you reverse engineer a monolithic e-commerce platform into a sleek microservices architecture? There are many schools of thought, like domain-driven design, the two pizza team, design-first, and Conway’s Law. Then there is Gus Fune, Chief Technology Officer at DivBrands, who is a fan of the FAFO approach, also known as  “f**k around and find out.”

Another hip acronym is MACH, which stands for microservices, APIs, cloud-native, and headless, which emerged alongside the ecommerce boom as the building blocks for scalable, flexible digital experiences.

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