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11 min readThe Strangler Fig Pattern: Killing Your Monolith One Piece at a Time πΏπͺ
Your monolith is 6 years old, 400,000 lines of code, and the original developer left in 2021. Every deploy is a prayer. Everyone's afraid to touch it. The solution isn't a 'big rewrite' - I promise that will kill your company. It's the Strangler Fig Pattern: strangle the beast slowly, without anyone noticing the lights went out.
Feb 18, 2026