The document discusses the evolution of Coolblue's legacy system called Vanessa over the past 15 years as the company has grown from processing around 1 order per day to over 12,000 orders per day currently. As Vanessa aged it became more difficult to maintain and adapt to new business needs. Coolblue transitioned Vanessa to a microservices architecture using C# and RabbitMQ for messaging to address challenges around agility, reliability, and integrating new systems. Key parts of the new architecture include using RabbitMQ for background jobs, intra-service communication, and sharing data between new and legacy systems through message triggers.