Evolving Messaging For Microservices: A Retrospective from Building Workiva’s Messaging Platform
Workiva’s original product — supporting the mundane task of filing documents with the SEC — was so innovative that within its first 5 years it was being used by more than 65 percent of the Fortune 500 and generating more than $100 million in annual revenue. During that explosion in growth, the software development team focused solely on supporting and expanding the existing software stack. However, after several years of growth and expansion maintaining and extending that single code base became unsustainable. ...