In part 1 of app modernization series, I introduced a simple news aggregator and some of the challenges in its initial architecture. In part 2, I’ll talk about the journey to the cloud and some unexpected benefits and learnings along the way.
Why Cloud?
The initial backend had many issues that I outlined in part 1. After about 1 year, in late 2016, we decided to look into moving it to a more stable home. Our main goal was to improve resiliency of the app, as the IIS host kept crashing, but we didn’t want to rewrite or re-architecture the app in a major way. Around the same time, I started working at Google and was learning all about Google Cloud. We decided to give it a try and see what it took to move the app there.
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