How would you migrate a monolith to microservices without breaking users?

A safe migration is incremental. **Steps:** - Identify clear domain boundaries (bounded contexts) - Extract one service at a time (strangler pattern) - Keep API contracts stable; use a gateway if needed - Handle data ownership carefully (avoid shared DB long-term) - Add observability early (tracing/logs) Microservices only help if the team can operate them reliably (deployments, monitoring, incident response).