If you’ve ever worked with an ageing system that runs half your business, you know the fear: touch one thing, and everything might break.

That’s the reality for countless teams stuck between two bad choices:

➡️ Rebuild everything from scratch (expensive, risky, and always slower than planned).

➡️ Keep patching the old system (frustrating, limiting, and stops innovation.But modernisation doesn’t have to be binary).

The Strangler Fig Pattern offers a smarter path, inspired by how the strangler fig grows around its host tree, it lets new systems grow alongside the old. Until they naturally take over.Instead of tearing everything down, you build new capabilities on top of what still works.

We’ve used this approach with enterprise clients where full rebuilds weren’t an option. By adding an API layer and replacing the biggest bottlenecks first, we helped them modernise without downtime or disruption.

✅ No downtime

✅ Progressive ROI

✅ Continuous delivery

✅ Fast results

It works because it respects the reality businesses face.

They can’t pause for rebuilds.

I would recommend to stop thinking in black and white (“old vs new”) and start thinking in layers to make innovation manageable again.

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