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We previously released this episode with the wrong audio file and are re-releasing it on a weekend.TIBCO was started in the 90’s with a popular message bus product that was widely used by finance companies, logistics providers, and other systems with high throughput. As TIBCO grew in popularity, the company expanded into other areas through products it developed in-house as well as through acquisitions.One acquisition was Jaspersoft, a business intelligence data platform. When TIBCO acquired Jaspersoft in 2014, the architecture was a monolithic Java application. Around this time, customer use cases were shifting from centralized reporting to real-time, embedded visualizations. The use case of the Jaspersoft software was becoming less centralized and less monolithic and the software architecture needed to change in order to reflect that.Jan Schiffman is a VP of engineering at TIBCO and Sherman Wood is a director at TIBCO. They join the show to discuss the process of migrating a large Java monolith to a composable set of services. Breaking up a monolith is not an easy process–nor is it something that every company should do just because they have a monolith. In some cases, a monolith is just fine.Jan and Sherman explain why the business use case for why the Jaspersoft monolith needed to be refactored, and their approach to the refactoring. We also talk through the modern use cases of embedded analytics and the interaction between business analysts and data engineers. At a higher level, we discuss the lessons they have learned from managing a large, complex refactoring. Full disclosure: TIBCO is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily.

We previously released this episode with the wrong audio file and are re-releasing it on a weekend.TIBCO was started in the 90’s with a popular message bus product that was widely used by finance companies, logistics providers, and other systems with high throughput. As TIBCO grew in popularity, the company expanded into other areas through products it developed in-house as well as through acquisitions.One acquisition was Jaspersoft, a business intelligence data platform. When TIBCO acquired Jaspersoft in 2014, the architecture was a monolithic Java application. Around this time, customer use cases were shifting from centralized reporting to real-time, embedded visualizations. The use case of the Jaspersoft software was becoming less centralized and less monolithic and the software architecture needed to change in order to reflect that.Jan Schiffman is a VP of engineering at TIBCO and Sherman Wood is a director at TIBCO. They join the show to discuss the process of migrating a large Java monolith to a composable set of services. Breaking up a monolith is not an easy process–nor is it something that every company should do just because they have a monolith. In some cases, a monolith is just fine.Jan and Sherman explain why the business use case for why the Jaspersoft monolith needed to be refactored, and their approach to the refactoring. We also talk through the modern use cases of embedded analytics and the interaction between business analysts and data engineers. At a higher level, we discuss the lessons they have learned from managing a large, complex refactoring. Full disclosure: TIBCO is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily.

Monolith Migration with Jan Schiffman and Sherman Wood