Strangler Fig Pattern: Migrating Monolith to Microservices with Zero Downtime

The article details a phased approach to extract an Orders microservice from a monolith using Change Data Capture (CDC) with Debezium and Kafka to keep databases in sync. It warns against application-level dual writes due to atomicity issues, advocating for event-driven synchronization. The pattern ensures zero data loss and ordering guarantees during transition.