Software Architecture

Emma Woodhouse Refactors Your Monolith

Confident Architectural Changes for Other People's Systems

Jane Austen · 27 May 2026

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort, unless one can also restructure the service boundaries.”

A brilliantly self-assured guide to refactoring monoliths, extracting services, reorganising dependencies, and making confident architectural decisions before consulting the people who understand the system.

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: A Monolith of Some Consequence
  2. Chapter 2: Services I Have Matched Myself
  3. Chapter 3: The Misunderstanding at the API Boundary
  4. Chapter 4: It Was Badly Done, Indeed

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.

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