Legacy: Core

Before you know it, you aren't strangling the fig. You are building a monument of around it. You now have a legacy core and a messy proxy layer. Congratulations, you have doubled your technical debt. The Uncomfortable Truth: It’s Not a Tech Problem If you are a CTO reading this, stop looking at your stack trace. The real barrier to fixing the legacy core is not technological—it is organizational risk aversion .

Build the wall around the legacy. Starve it of new features. Feed the data to modern services. Eventually, you won't have a legacy core. You’ll have a legacy archive . legacy core

It’s a beautiful theory. In practice, it often fails. Before you know it, you aren't strangling the fig