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A commerce platform begins a strangler migration. Which slice should be first, and what must exist before any slice moves?

A legacy scheduling system must be replaced incrementally. How should a strangler approach, traffic shadowing, dual-run comparison and rollback be sequenced, and what reconciliation is required?

A strangler migration is 70% complete and has stalled. The legacy system still runs. What happened and what do you do?

A wallet platform must migrate from a monolith to services while serving live traffic. What sequence minimises risk, and which step is usually done in the wrong order?

You are modernising a fifteen-year-old monolith with the strangler pattern. Which slice do you extract first, and why?