Legacy to Modern: Bridging Trace Flows with Dual-Writing and Alloy
After Phase 1, the Insurance Hub had a stable Kubernetes runtime and a GitOps delivery loop in the QA K3s environment. Deployments were now repeatable and the cluster could be reconciled from Git, but cross-service troubleshooting was still constrained by the legacy tracing setup.
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In the inaugural post of the “Insurance Hub: The Way to Go” series, I unveiled my ambitious strategy: modernizing a Java-based insurance system into a cloud-native Go application. With that roadmap firmly in place, the past two months have been dedicated to hands-on engineering, transitioning the vision from architectural diagrams to tangible implementation. This article chronicles the execution of Phase 1—a foundational “lift and shift” that establishes our new cloud environment.
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