Balalaie, AABalalaieHeydarnoori, AAHeydarnooriJamshidi, PPJamshidi2016-09-222016-03-182016-09-222016-03-18IEEE Software, 2016, 33 (3), pp.42-520740-7459http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/40557This article reports on experiences and lessons learned during incremental migration and architectural refactoring of a commercial mobile back end as a service to microservices architecture. It explains how the researchers adopted DevOps and how this facilitated a smooth migration.© 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Software Engineering0803 Computer Software0806 Information SystemsJournal Articlehttps://www.dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2016.64