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Dec 4, 2021 · Cloud Native

FreeWheel’s Journey: Transforming a Monolithic Application into a Cloud‑Native Microservices System

This article details FreeWheel’s migration from a decade‑old Ruby monolith to a cloud‑native architecture, explaining cloud‑native fundamentals, the Strangler Pattern, containerization, Kubernetes/EKS orchestration, Istio service‑mesh integration, serverless extensions, and the internal platforms that support the new hybrid system.