Abstract
The migration of legacy monolith systems toward a microservice architecture is a large-scale, nontrivial technical activity and investment. This shift would be infeasible without the use of robust underlying software that can sustain a big part of this work and sort the complexities involved. A myriad of Open Source Software (OSS) projects are available in the community for this purpose, however, many companies may remain reluctant to adopt them as the cornerstone for their new evolved systems that can work at scale. Ownership, security, quality concerns, or support confidence are widely common reasons. Furthermore, these concerns are intensified when the OSS is to take part in critical sections of the evolved system. Using a complex case study from Zalando, this article aims to give some light to both researchers and practitioners into the use of OSS to drive this evolution, and the impact that the OSS can have on the adopting system.
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