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Doesn't that count as a (successful) rewrite strategy as well?

• magicalhippo 8y ago
  Perhaps. For me saying "we're gonna rewrite this program" means a specific effort over a relatively short timescale. Incremental or not (when switching platform for example). With our approach we will likely have some code that's 10-15 years old now and which still be untouched for another 5-10 years.
• devonkim 8y ago
  I argue that’s not a rewrite because it’s not a fundamental architecture change that requires a huge shift and lift (with the accompanying monolithic deployment critical section and associated risks). It’s just an application of the strangler pattern to do incremental component changes.