The Docs Nobody Read
Two hundred pages of hard-won patterns. Every one of them paid for in production incidents. Nobody opened them.
Documentation¶
Strangling Your Documentation: A Meta-Journey
You know the pattern. Build the new thing alongside the old. Ensure compatibility. Swap when ready. Remove the old.
I just spent a day writing about zero-downtime platform migrations using the Strangler Fig pattern. The irony? I nearly broke that exact pattern while documenting it.
Here's what happened.