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2 questions in Legacy Integration Patterns.
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Legacy Integration Patterns advanced
A new platform must integrate with legacy systems that only support batch file exchange. How should the boundary be designed so the new system is not constrained by it?
2 min answer elasticrunlegacybatchanti-corruption -
Legacy Integration Patterns advanced
At 21:40 a schema change on the legacy order database makes the change-data-capture connector feeding the new analytics store crash-loop. At 23:10 the connector is still down and nobody has been paged, because the analytics store is not customer-facing. At 04:55 the order database refuses writes — its data volume is full. What failed, and which design decision made it possible?
3 min answer cdcreplication-slotwaloffload