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How would you migrate from a monolithic PostgreSQL to a microservices NoSQL architecture?

Strangler Fig pattern: 1) Phase 1 — Identify services: identify bounded contexts (Orders, Users, Products, Notifications). 2) Phase 2 — Add caching first: add Redis in front of PostgreSQL for hot data. Zero risk. 3) Phase 3 — Extract read models: create MongoDB read models fed by CDC (Change Data Capture) from PostgreSQL via Debezium. API serves reads from MongoDB. 4) Phase 4 — Extract write path:

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