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Refactoring Legacy Code Without Downtime

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Describe your process for refactoring legacy code without causing downtime. Explain how you would assess dependencies, plan incremental changes, validate behavior, and release safely. Address rollback readiness, monitoring, stakeholder communication, and how you would respond if production behavior differs from expectations.