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How to Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure
Want to make this blog post more fun to read? Replace the placeholder system names with ones you are familiar with. Then share the updated URL with your friends, and it will retain those replacements—a personalized blog post just for you! TL;DR: Whenever doing a big migration from system to system2, front-load as work as possible into building migration scaffolding to system2.
Team system2 may being to “leave the ground” (sometimes called “infrastructure astronauts”) as they are further removed from system(in other words, they might start building things they don’t need). Sometimes we stack bets for the wrong political reasons, because it feels good to “support” or “provide momentum” behind other organizational efforts. In order to pull this off you must build some sort of transitional router or middleware to give yourself a space inject system2 ’s innards into system.
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