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12 min readThe Strangler Fig Pattern: Escape Your Monolith Without Burning It Down πΏποΈ
Our 'temporary' Laravel monolith turned 4 years old and nobody could add a feature without breaking three others. Then I discovered the Strangler Fig Pattern β the only sane way to modernize a legacy system without a 6-month big bang rewrite that ends careers.
Mar 02, 2026