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Sounds really good. I didn't know that some people calls this a Strangler. I have only one small caveat if your work is full of politics: The pressure to provi
by _nalply 7y ago
Sounds really good. I didn't know that some people calls this a Strangler.
I have only one small caveat if your work is full of politics: The pressure to provide a replacement of the legacy system disappears and a strangler might transmute into the saving net of the legacy system.
Now you have two problems instead of one: the strangler AND the legacy system.
- YawningAngel 7y agoI think this is a good thing. Moving from having no choice but to replace an entire system to being able to work on it in incrementally makes an otherwise impossible problem tractable. If you end up only replacing the problematic parts of a legacy system and retaining the rest I think that's fine.
- closeparen 7y agoThe legacy has to be really bad for an abandoned mid-flight migration to be any better. Usually the intermediate state is at least a little worse (but worth it because you eventually get through). Strangler pattern only helps bound the damage.
- jerf 7y agoAll following the Strangler pattern can do is provide you a path forward where previously you may not have been able to even see a path. It can't force you to walk it.