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Level 3: Distributed systems · L3.5 Monolith vs microservices, serverless

Migrating with the strangler fig

Plan an incremental migration off a legacy system.

11 min · Pro

What you take away

  • A big-bang rewrite chases a moving target, delivers nothing until the end, and cuts over in one untested event.

And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.

How the class is laid out

  1. The problem
  2. The simple version
  3. The pattern
  4. Check your understanding