Modernize your ASPNET based systems using the Strangler Fig pattern

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Claims an incremental migration converts an ASP.NET 4.7.2 MVC app to .NET 6 using YARP reverse proxy as a facade and system.web adapters (RC) to share cookies, sessions and a serialized claims principal. A customer case takes about a year, routes static assets and APIs by pattern rewrites, and succeeds but surfaces real issues: machineKey/cookie decryption, cached assets, deployment entanglement of menu routes, and no Windows auth yet in adapters. Code is on GitHub.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:13Whats a Strangler Fig
3. 5:58Routing
4. 6:43Session State
5. 7:45Jarp
6. 9:43Facade
7. 11:43System Web adapters
8. 14:28Demo
9. 15:43MVC application
10. 18:26ASPNET Core configuration
11. 20:22System Web Adapter configuration
12. 25:26Sharing Session State
13. 32:56Authentication
14. 36:23Questions

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