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What is the Strangler Fig pattern? How do you use it to migrate from monolith to microservices?

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The Strangler Fig pattern (named by Martin Fowler) incrementally migrates a monolith by building new functionality as microservices around it and gradually routing traffic away from the legacy system until it can be retired — like a fig vine that slowly envelops its host tree.…