What to Do When Hacks No Longer Help? The tutu.ru Experience
summary
tutu.ru describes how a growing project accumulates legacy code and quick fixes (“band-aids”) that slow development and raise maintenance costs. The talk examines the trade-off between refactoring properly versus applying cheap fixes, shows how accumulated hacks break architecture and product velocity, and discusses their experience dealing with these problems in a large, high-load web product.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 2:17Background
- 5:48Legacy of full-stack development
- 9:21Second approach: reengineering
- 22:49What to do with legacy?
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