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Overview
To understand what it means to modernize an application, this learning path will not only introduce the key concepts and skills for application modernization but also walk you through a sample application -- both the legacy monolith application and the modernized micorservices application.
Skill level
Beginner to intermediate
Estimated time to complete
Approximately 4 hours.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:
- Explain why and how you should modernize your applications
- Describe the key application modernization strategies
- Explain the role that containers and microservices play in application modernization
- Containerize a legacy application
- Modernize the runtime of a legacy application
- Refactor a monolithic legacy application into microservices using the Strangler pattern
- Separate frontends and build micro-frontends for your modernized application