Migration Strategy

A migration strategy selects patterns—rehost, replatform, refactor, replace—and defines waves, rollback, data cutover, and validation criteria for transitions. It aligns technical moves with business continuity requirements. Strategies document dependencies and parallel run periods explicitly.

In Practice

Larkinized LLC ties migration strategies to architecture contracts and organizational change plans. Pilot waves prove assumptions before enterprise scale. Integration and data migration often determine critical path more than infrastructure provisioning.

Example

A migration strategy uses phased strangler routing to shift traffic from monolith to microservices over four releases.