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Moving Host Cobol Batches and Monolith Webapps to Cloud and Microservices

Very interesting presentation in Amazon Event "From Mainframe to Microservices - Vanguard's Move to the Cloud" . Following parts can be used as Migration Patterns : Different ways of how to move from Mainframe to Microservices: Re-host Reengineer  Refactor Rewrite Batch job migration Data analytics enablement Data-driven augmentation Re-platform with Linux and Java Repurchase Retire Combination of all This presentation also shows the Cloud Data Architecture at Vanguard. Generally this is how we can build our own database for our micrsoservicew at the cloud and at the same time still use the data from DB2 mainframe on-premise as well.  Advantages using this data architecture: Each microservice reads data from its own local database. DB2 mainframe database can still be used from other Host / Cobol batches. DB scalability Disadvantages: You cannot write to the database in case you have a network problem. There is an extension t