2025
Peer-Reviewed Research
Incidents During Microservice Decomposition: A Case Study
The transition was incremental rather than a single cutover.
Carbon Health, EASE 2025
- Architecture & Platform Transition
- Reliability & Operations
Evidence note
From Monolithic Systems to Microservices: An Assessment Framework
Peer-Reviewed Research2021Information and Software Technology
What was examined?
Research combining a systematic mapping study with interviews to develop a decision-support framework for organisations considering monolith-to-microservice migration.
Key findings
- 1Significant re-architecture should be informed by evidence about the actual system rather than architectural fashion or intuition.
- 2The research identifies system characteristics and information that organisations should assess before deciding whether microservice migration is justified.
- 3Architecture transition is a decision problem before it is an implementation problem.
Why it matters. Lornets interpretation.
The first Platform Transition question should be whether a material constraint has been demonstrated, not which target architecture appears more modern.
This is the Lornets reading of the source, not a finding of the source itself.
What it does not establish
- 1The study focuses on monolith-to-microservice decisions.
- 2It does not validate Lornets' exact Stay, Harden, Hybrid or Migrate model.
- 3Architecture evidence remains highly context dependent.
Source
- Venue
- Information and Software Technology
- Evidence type
- Peer-Reviewed Research
- Published
- 2021
- Status
- Current
Relevant Lornets framework areas
Framework domains
- Architecture & Maintainability
- Performance & Scalability
- Delivery & Change Control
Where this applies
Related evidence
Last verified 2026-08-11
2023
Technical Standard
ISO/IEC 25010:2023
The 2023 edition defines a product-quality model using nine quality characteristics.
ISO / IEC
- Software Quality & Maintainability
2026
Practitioner Reference
Software Due Diligence
Technical diligence can examine product capability, architecture, technology stack, technical debt, R&D organisation, open-source use, hosting, cloud, cybersecurity and scalability.
Deloitte
- Fundraise & Technical Diligence
- Architecture & Platform Transition