The Strangler Pattern is specifically designed for incremental modernization of a monolithic application. Oracle ' s cloud-native guidance describes it as gradually replacing portions of a monolith with microservices over time, minimizing disruption and avoiding the operational risk of a complete " big bang " rewrite. New functionality or migrated capabilities are implemented as independent services while remaining functionality continues to operate in the existing monolith. Eventually, the legacy application can be retired after its responsibilities have been progressively replaced. The Saga Pattern instead manages distributed transactions, the Sidecar Pattern places supporting functionality beside an application workload, and the Transactional Outbox Pattern provides reliable coordination between database changes and event publishing. Therefore, the pattern matching gradual monolith decomposition is the Strangler Pattern.