Part 3 3 chapters

The Reference Monolith

Build the Spring Boot 'before' picture: domain, modules, persistence, API, seed data, deliberate smells, and the test suite that becomes the equivalence suite.

Chapter 8

Designing the Monolith

The six bounded contexts as one Spring Boot deployable: domain model, layered modules, single shared schema, REST API, and seed data.

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Chapter 9

The Deliberate Smells

The coupling, god-service, shared-table, and transaction-scope smells planted in the reference monolith, each tagged to the pattern that will later cure it.

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Chapter 10

Testing the Monolith (the Equivalence Suite)

Unit and Testcontainers integration tests plus the Newman contract collection that becomes the behavior-equivalence suite for every later extraction.

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