This research-driven project presents a comprehensive and actionable framework for enterprise digital transformation teams to systematically migrate from monolithic systems to microservices architecture. The work is grounded in an extensive review of 20 peer-reviewed papers, real-world case studies, and reference architecture models.
The goal is to support architectural assessment, service decomposition, migration planning, DevOps tooling, and resilience design using a pedagogically structured, literature-backed methodology.
- Literature Review of 20 papers on microservice migration, decomposition, observability, and resilience.
- Proposed Framework covering:
- Assessment Phase
- Reference Architecture Design
- Migration Strategy
- DevOps & Tooling
- Evaluation Metrics
- SWOT Analysis of monolithic vs. microservice architectures.
- Design Pattern Library with pedagogical breakdown using Bloom's Taxonomy.
- Glossary of 100+ terms relevant to microservices and cloud architecture.
If you use or reference this work, please cite it using the following BibTeX entry:
@misc{aditya2025framework,
author = {Aditya Saxena},
title = {A Framework for Digital Transformation Teams to Design Microservices Architecture from a Monolith},
year = {2025},
note = {Unpublished academic project, Toronto Metropolitan University}
}