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Engineering8 min · April 2026

Zero-downtime migrations, in practice

Replacing a legacy system while it is serving thousands of users a day. The strangler pattern, done carefully.

You can replace a legacy system serving thousands of users a day without downtime. We use the strangler pattern, carefully and in parts.

The approach

  • The new system wraps the old and gradually takes over.
  • Both run in parallel until we are confident.
  • We switch in small, reversible steps.

Users never notice the entire foundation changing underneath them.

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Continero team

A Brno software house building reliable operational software and applied AI since 2018.

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