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82 questions in Legacy Modernization.

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A legacy system has no clean boundaries to extract — one shared database, entangled modules, no tests. What is the first move, and in what order should capability be recovered?

A platform decomposes a monolith into services. Which boundaries should be extracted first, and which extraction produces a distributed monolith?

During a monolith decomposition, the new search service needs data owned by five other services. What do you do?

How would you identify where to split a large application, using evidence rather than opinion?

A migration will take eighteen months, during which old and new systems both serve production. How should the coexistence period be designed?

During a multi-year migration, old and new systems must coexist. Which coexistence patterns are sustainable and which accumulate debt?

Eighteen months into a coexistence period, customer records are authoritative in the new system and order records are still authoritative in the old one. A refund credits the customer and cancels the order line. What happens the first time the credit commits and the cancellation is rejected?

Your cutover plan says switch reads, then switch writes, then decommission. A reviewer asks what happens at 02:00 if the new store turns out to be wrong after writes have moved. What mechanism makes the write switch reversible, and what is the honest unavailability window?

A cutover is planned for a Sunday night. What must be prepared beyond the technical steps, and what is the most commonly missing item?

A platform must cut over a critical service. What does a cutover plan need beyond the switching steps?

Alibaba Cloud reported a peak of 583,000 orders per second during Singles' Day on 11 November 2020. Your own platform is far smaller but its annual peak is roughly 40 times a median day and its date is known a year in advance. How does that one fact reshape an eighteen-month migration plan?

What is in a cutover plan besides the steps, and what would you rehearse?