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An online retail enterprise currently hosts a monolithic backend application on a fleet of Compute Engine virtual machines. As business demand increases, the engineering team encounters several challenges:
You need to modernize the architecture to support independent CI/CD release cycles, eliminate infrastructure management overhead, and achieve rapid elasticity with zero idle cost.
Which modernization strategy should you recommend?
A serverless microservices architecture breaks down a large, monolithic application into smaller, loosely coupled domain services. Deploying these containerized components onto fully managed services like Cloud Run and Cloud Run functions abstracts away all underlying server and infrastructure management while leveraging native Google Cloud event-driven tools like Pub/Sub and Eventarc.
Migrating directly to serverless container and event platforms addresses the organizational shift toward agility and cost efficiency. It eliminates legacy VM maintenance debt while granting development teams the autonomy to innovate and release code continuously.
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