This is so true in our case. We started building Mashape, the marketplace for APIs in 2011. Two years later it become +100k loc of spaghetti Java code. We start

This is so true in our case. We started building Mashape, the marketplace for APIs in 2011. Two years later it become +100k loc of spaghetti Java code. We started a big re-write/de-coupling phase in 2014 which also opened new business opportunities since we were able to spin off some features as single products.. and this was not expected but definitely created advantages not only from the code/productivity side but from a business side too. We have embraced Nginx and built KONG[1] as the main API Gateway for managing our microservices. It made our transition much faster and easier since we were able to orchestrate common functionalities across services, such as logging and authentication, in a few lines of code. [1] A month ago we've released Kong open source: https://github.com/Mashape/kong https://github.com/Mashape/kong