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Managing a Monolith Breakup – Stateful Services
Safely extract stateful services from a monolith with facades, duplicators, and feature flags to enable incremental migration and system decoupling.
February 27, 2025
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Independent Software Delivery Consultant
Pete Hodgson is an independent software delivery consultant and writer at Harness who helps startup and scale-up engineering teams improve how they build and ship software, recently with a focus on pragmatic AI-assisted engineering. He�s written about delivery and architecture for Harness, published on MartinFowler.com and DevOps.com, and co-authored an O�Reilly book on feature flags. Hodgson has also worked as a consultant at Thoughtworks, supporting teams adopting agile engineering practices. He serves on the OpenFeature governance committee (a CNCF incubating project) and is CTO of PartnerSlate.
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Safely extract stateful services from a monolith with facades, duplicators, and feature flags to enable incremental migration and system decoupling.

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Safely extract stateful services from a monolith with facades, duplicators, and feature flags to enable incremental migration and system decoupling.

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Safely extract stateful services from a monolith with facades, duplicators, and feature flags to enable incremental migration and system decoupling.
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