We ♥️ legacy
summary
The talk discusses working with legacy code and reframes it as a common, manageable part of software work rather than something shameful. It covers practical tools and techniques to reduce frustration when maintaining or improving legacy systems, emphasizing that starting from scratch is often not an option and that skills like patience are important.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Acknowledgments
- 3:22Legacy treasure history
- 5:50Monster 1: Rewriting blindly
- 8:00Monster 2: The Super ego
- 10:28Hiring mercenary Adaza
- 13:42Legacy code value
- 16:35Monster 3: Spaghetti code
- 19:30Monster 4: Hoarding
- 22:44Monster 5: Almost done
- 25:57Monster 6: Jenga
- 28:31Monster 7: Juan Palomo
- 31:03Monster 8: Mr. Vans
- 35:04Team growth victory
- 36:53Closing & Q&A
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