It's 1980-something. We're working on a fairly complex system that includes some big machines and three computers. One of the computers has a magnetic tape...
0 replies - 2908 views - 04/26/13 by Steven Lott in Articles
That's not a legacy system, THIS is a legacy system.
In my last blog on legacy systems I talked about what they were and weren't. In this one I'm going to...
0 replies - 1376 views - 02/28/13 by Robert Annett in Articles
A gift or a curse from the past...
I'm speaking at QCon london this year on the topic Modern Legacy Systems
This was tweeted by @QCon as follows (note...
0 replies - 1470 views - 02/27/13 by Robert Annett in Articles
Originally authored by Jon GuymonSome
of the code we work with at New Relic has been around for quite awhile.
Unfortunately, not all of it has stayed clean...
0 replies - 3241 views - 11/15/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles
We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and
what a healthy, long-lived code base looks like. What architectural
decisions have the...
1 replies - 9842 views - 10/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
Michael Feathers defines legacy code as "code without tests." There's a major qualitative difference when working on code without tests. ...
0 replies - 6837 views - 04/26/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
Matt Vanvleet is the VP of practice management and product development at Pillar Technology. Pillar has created a product called Verde which lets developers...
0 replies - 14132 views - 03/04/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
