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title: Untangle The 'Spaghetti' Before You Begin Your Cloud Migration
description: Next Pathway's CEO Chetan Mathur shares his recommendations with Forbes for identifying and addressing the complex interdependencies between legacy applications prior to moving workloads to the cloud.
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# [Untangle The 'Spaghetti' Before You Begin Your Cloud Migration](https://blog.nextpathway.com/begin-your-cloud-migration-first-untangle-the-spaghetti)

 Written by [Next Pathway](https://blog.nextpathway.com/author/admin) | 6/7/22 7:28 PM

The “spaghetti factor" refers to legacy environments that resemble a bottomless bowl of spaghetti with long, intertwining strands. Identifying interdependencies between applications is the most important consideration when moving workloads to the cloud. 

What’s needed is a comprehensive, end-to-end planning process supported by automated tooling that can discover and map the data lineage, dependencies and flow of your legacy applications across your systems, and that defines the cloud target. [Chetan Mathur](https://www.nextpathway.com/about-us), CEO of Next Pathway Inc., says defining and understanding these relationships is critical to determining what to migrate and in what order. 

You can read the full article here: [To Begin Your Cloud Migration, First Untangle The ‘Spaghetti’](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/06/07/to-begin-your-cloud-migration-first-untangle-the-spaghetti/?sh=3963141a430d)

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