Twenty years in the past, I posted that I discovered that the strangler fig plant was an fascinating metaphor for the gradual alternative of a legacy system. I didn’t consult with the metaphor since, however in the meantime it grew a lifetime of its personal. Different folks more and more referred to the strangler fig strategy to modernization, and visitors to that publish steadily elevated: presently it will get about 5000 web page views a month, one of many extra fashionable pages on this website. So I made a decision I wanted to replace that web page, and have rewritten it, specializing in the core actions we have to do to make successful of such a enterprise.
(This summarizes extra detailed writing from Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis.)
