Fresh Wind for Legacy Software: How to Put Old Applications on New Feet

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The talk explains strategies to modernize legacy business applications without full replacement by addressing their technical foundation. It describes using Gradle, Spring Boot, and containers to reduce technical risk, replatform complex systems onto a more stable stack, and position them for further long-term modernization.

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1. 0:00Legacy software intro
2. 3:44Modernization strategies
3. 7:15Concrete projects
4. 8:21Faster builds project
5. 13:40Spring Boot migration
6. 16:29Success factors
7. 18:13Container platform migration
8. 20:27Java updates example
9. 22:53Project results summary
10. 23:54Next steps
11. 26:39Long-term care
12. 27:21Planning modernization
13. 28:47Closing

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