Strangler fig
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What is Strangler fig?
Incrementally migrate a legacy system by gradually replacing specific pieces of functionality with new applications and services. As features from the legacy system are replaced, the new system eventually replaces all of the old system's features, strangling the old system and allowing you to decommission it.
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More in stage 23: Reliability Patterns
- Reliability Patterns
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- Leader Election
- CQRS
- Pipes & Filters
- Ambassador
- Gateway Routing
- Gateway Offloading
- Gateway Aggregation
- External Config Store
- Compute Resource Consolidation
- Backends for Frontend
- Anti-Corruption Layer
- Valet Key
- Sequential Convoy
- Static Content Hosting
- Scheduling Agent Supervisor
- Sharding
- Queue-Based Load Leveling
- Materialized View
- Publisher/Subscriber
- Index Table
- Priority Queue
- Event Sourcing
- Pipes and Filters
- CQRS
- Competing Consumers
- Cache-Aside
- Choreography
- Claim Check
- Async Request Reply
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Is this Strangler fig tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 91 of 147 in the free System Design roadmap, in stage 23, Reliability Patterns. If you are new to System Design, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.