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When discussing how to transition to new systems or environments, one of my favorite approaches is the strangler pattern because it allows for a low risk approach to transition to the new environment in a piecemeal fashion. There is a hidden risk with this approach, and it is the price tag is increased tech debt adding complexity and maintenance costs. …
I’m going to share part of a conversation I had while attending KubeCon last fall. We sapped stories on our experiences with esoteric hardware, but there were two that came to mind. The first looked at a regional bank that happened to have a VAX based system running their daily transactions. There was an issue that required rebooting the system …
A while ago, I wrote a post looking at different ways to modernize an application while retaining preexisting functionality. One of these techniques is called the strangler patterns which gets its name from the strangler fig. The idea being: In the original post, I highlighted two techniques that can be used to replicate data: one from a web proxy standpoint, …
The strangler pattern is one of the more difficult yet less risky patterns.
What do you think of when you hear about a legacy system? A machine in a corner with a broom handle holding the power switch on because the switch slips to off when nobody’s looking, and they don’t want to be the person to remove it. Perhaps it is a user account management system that sits on a Sun Ultra …
