Migrating a Legacy .NET Appto Azure App Services
@ntlamThe app had been running on a single on-prem server since before I joined.
Lift, then shift — not the other way around
We moved the app as-is first, then modernized in place. Trying to refactor and migrate at the same time is how migrations stall for a year.
A boring migration is a successful migration.
The part nobody warns you about
Connection strings, file paths, and scheduled tasks hardcoded years ago caused more downtime than the actual cloud migration.
