The monolithic design is used to construct more than 80% of the current, worldwide IT systems. Some could argue that because these monoliths are so big, converting them all at once to microservices will compromise the organization’s security.

It doesn’t mean though, that large monolithic system cannot be transformed with this modern, microservices approach and adapted to new business objectives.

Designing and creating API gateways for an existing backend system is the initial step. The ability to launch game-changing features into your monolithic system and start the case-by-case conversion of your system to a microservice architecture are all made possible by having an enabled API.