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Strategies to migrate from a monolith to microservices?

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#migration#strangler-fig#microservices
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Answer

Prefer incremental migration (Strangler Fig): extract one feature/domain at a time behind stable APIs, and add good logging/metrics/tracing. Avoid big‑bang rewrites; split data and behavior gradually.

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