The Strangler Fig Pattern — Migrating Legacy Systems Without a Big Bang Rewrite
Incrementally replace a legacy system by routing new traffic through new code, gradually strangling the old system until it can be decommissioned.
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Incrementally replace a legacy system by routing new traffic through new code, gradually strangling the old system until it can be decommissioned.
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