Migrating from a monolith to a new service

You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Stack Overflow crew peeled a tiny feature out of their massive monolith, shipped its data into a fresh database, rebuilt the UI as a microfrontend using a new framework—and somehow pulled off zero-downtime deployment.

Along the way we wrestled with eventual consistency, multi-tenancy quirks, circular references, CORS headaches and more. You’ll hear the choices we made, the alternatives we kicked around, and the hard-won lessons from this migration experiment.

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