Toronto Tech Week x Loop Tech Talk 2: The Proxy Pattern -How Next.js Let Us Migrate Without a Big Bang

​Join us for our Toronto Tech Week x Loop Tech series!

What we'll cover: How Loop uses Vercel's Next.js as an intelligent proxy layer to incrementally migrate from a legacy Netlify app — zero downtime, one route at a time. A practical playbook for teams stuck with legacy front ends who want to modernize without betting the business.

Key topics:

• ​Next.js rewrites and middleware as a migration strategy

• ​Intelligent routing: "route exists?" → Next.js, else → Netlify legacy

• ​Handling authentication state (Cognito cookies) across two apps

• ​Real gotchas: the non-ASCII cookie bug that broke production

• ​GraphQL federation + Apollo Client as the unified data layer

​Meet the presenter:

​Ian Duke is a senior software engineer at Loop Financial, where he works on Next.js, React, and Apollo GraphQL. Before tech, he spent nine years in Flight Safety at a major airline, which is why he takes production incidents a little too seriously.

​Come join us for a fun morning of learning, networking and starting the day strong.

​Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com.

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