The Story of One Sunset and Five Burnouts or How We Migrated Legacy

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Covers migrating legacy PHP products: concrete problems and nuances encountered during a real-team migration, describing the challenges, issues faced (technical and process), and the practical ways the team resolved them throughout the migration.

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1. 0:00Migration story
2. 5:43Legacy migration problems
3. 10:40Migration planning mistakes
4. 15:36New activation service
5. 22:19Data transfer between systems
6. 26:14Migration testing cases
7. 31:41Migration launch challenges
8. 33:28Unexpected outage
9. 37:22Stabilizing migration
10. 38:27Conclusions and advice
11. 45:15Q&A

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