Microservice adoption needs some careful thoughts. A quick maturity assessment will be helpful to understand the maturity of the organization and some of the challenges the organization can expect.
The maturity model in the following diagram is derived from the capability model discussed earlier in this chapter:
The 4*5 maturity model is simple enough for a quick self-evaluation. Four levels of maturities are mapped against five characteristics of application development--Application, Database, Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Processes.
Characteristics of the Traditional maturity level are explained as follows:
- Organizations still develop applications in a monolithic approach. There may be internal modularizations using subsystem designs, but packaged as a monolithic WAR. Use of proprietary service interfaces instead of RESTful service.
- Organizations use the one size fits all database model based on an enterprise standard and license model, irrespective...