# Tech

> Guides, news and ideas on tech from the Shoprocket team.

Guides, news and ideas on tech.

![Shoprocket's journey to microservices, part 1: what I got wrong about breaking up the monolith](https://media.shoprocket.io/blog/f9c4f462-58cb-4022-98a9-4cb547583b00/03dfxl8j-road-to-microservices.jpeg)

Tech

### [Shoprocket's journey to microservices, part 1: what I got wrong about breaking up the monolith](https://v3.shoprocket.io/blog/shoprockets-journey-to-microservices-part-1-what-i-got-wrong-about-breaking-up-the-monolith.md)

Engineering team post from the early Shoprocket years on the first attempt to extract a service from a PHP monolith. Why I picked the wrong first service, what tight coupling taught me, and the Newman advice I should have taken earlier.

17 Mar 2016 5 min read

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