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Monolith to Microservices Evolution

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Decomposes a single unified deployment unit into autonomous, independently deployable services organized around business bounded contexts.

STAFF ENGINEER TAKEAWAY: Microservices solve organizational scaling and release velocity, but exchange code simplicity for network complexity.
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Strangler Fig Migration Flow

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Legacy Monolith
Serves 100% of traffic on single DB
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API Gateway Router
Splits 10% traffic to new microservice
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Target Microservice
Processes isolated domain logic
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Monolith Deprecation
Remaining features fully migrated
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✓ ARCHITECTURAL ADVANTAGES

Autonomous team deployments, localized technology stacks, isolated failure blast radiuses.

✗ TRADE-OFFS & COMPLEXITIES

Requires distributed tracing, circuit breakers, and network latency overhead.

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