Migrating from a monolith to microservices without stopping delivery
A pragmatic approach to breaking down a monolithic PHP application into microservices while still shipping features.
ArchitectureMicroservicesPHPLeadership
At TLSContact, our main application started as a monolith that had grown for years. Deployments were risky, long-running, and tightly coupled across teams.
Instead of a big-bang rewrite, we used the strangler pattern: new features were built as services from day one, while we gradually extracted high-change domains from the monolith behind a stable API gateway.
This approach allowed us to keep shipping business value while reducing deployment time by roughly 60% and making each domain easier to reason about for individual teams.