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…
Much of the attention to generative AI in software development is about generating code. But it may have a more useful role in helping us understand existing code. This is…
From time to time I take a look at my site analytics to see how much traffic various bits of this site get. When doing this I saw that I…
The steady increase in deployment of AI tools has led a lot of people concerned about how software makes decisions that affect our lives. In one example, its about “algorithmic”…
Matteo Vaccari completes his article on testing template-generated HTML, by looking at how to use TDD with pages that make calls to the server. more… Source: martinfowler