Diving deeper into using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps
Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida dive into the details of incrementally modernizing a legacy mobile application. They look at how to implant the strangler fig into the existing…
Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida dive into the details of incrementally modernizing a legacy mobile application. They look at how to implant the strangler fig into the existing…
My colleagues are often involved in modernizing legacy systems, and our approach is to do this in an incremental fashion. Doing this with a mobile application raises some specific challenges….
I was interviewed on the Book Overflow podcast about the Refactoring book. We talked about the origins of the book, the relationship between refactoring, testing, and extreme programming, how refactoring…
Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. They describe how GenAI’s ability to process unstructured information…
Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth use their combination of an AST-fueled knowledge graph and LLMs to gain understanding of legacy systems. They have found it aids them both…
Most of the talk about the impact of GenAI on software development is about its ability to write (messy) code. But many of us think it’s going to be much…
Decentralized data management requires automation to scale governance effectively. Fitness functions are a powerful automated governance technique my colleagues have applied to data products within the context of a Data…
Cycle Time is a measure of how long it takes to get a new feature in a software system from idea to running in production. In Agile circles, we try…
Two decades ago, I posted that I found that the strangler fig plant was an interesting metaphor for the gradual replacement of a legacy system. I didn’t refer to the…