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[[Martin Fowler (software engineer)|Martin Fowler]] created this pattern.<ref name=":0" /> Its name derives from the [[strangler fig]] plant, which tends to grow on trees and eventually kill them.

The strangler fig pattern tends to be used as an organized assault on [[monolithic application]]s, andto itdecompose canthem bein usedthe tointerest of systematically migratemigrating to [[microservices]].<ref name=":0" /> The pattern can be used at the [[Method (computer programming)|method]] level or the [[Class (computer programming)|class]] level.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Seemann |first=Mark |title=Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering |publisher=[[Addison-Wesley]] |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-13-746440-1 |pages=228–237}}</ref>

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