The problem that became evident to Ashman was that the number of code commits started to decrease, objectively showing the increasing difficulty of introducing code changes, while the number of lines of code continued to increase. Ashman noted, “To me, it said we needed to do something, otherwise the problems would keep getting worse, with no end in sight.” As a result, in 2012 Ashman focused on implementing a code re-architecturing project that used the strangler pattern. The team accomplished this by creating what they internally called Building Blocks, which allowed developers to work in
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