Tag: legacy
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the reason the 2000 bug didn’t destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because we caught it and spent thousands of hours fixing it BEFORE the year 2000 🔗 I wish we had spent the last 26 years…
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A race against software calcification
Eventually, software is very hard to change. There are numerous reasons for this, and they often don’t even involve the software. The systems that run the software are old, regulators don’t let you change things, security controls, people have just forgotten how to program COBOL. There is so much code that it’s hard to know…
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Training for Legacy – Press Pass
Training for Legacy – Press Pass Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson asked me recently for advice on working with legacy applications. Check out her piece on it. Here’s the full reply I sent to her in email: Her topics: – The steps someone could take to get themselves up to speed on their employer’s legacy software. –…
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Accelerating Enterprise Application Upgrades Through Legacy Dependency Migration: Spring Application Advisor 1.4 – Upgrading software is sort of a boring topic. But, when we talk about this with customers, they get more excited than talking about AI. I shit you not. Just upgrading your ancient Java versions (as in this product release) is a huge…
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Three Reasons to Write More in an Age When Writing Means Less. – Write (and publish in the web) oto make sure you are known and have a legacy in the LLMs. Also, contribute to the future of knowledge (slight eyeroll there). // Oh, also because writing it the best way to think.
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Old Fashioned Function Keys – Ode to function keys, and a reminder that they’re useful.
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Cognitive load is what matters – Legacy software can mean: when changing the code requires too much cognitive load.
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Legacy Shmegacy – A bad mindset pushes you into the legacy trap and keeps you there. Here’s how change that mindset and what to change it to.
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Deploying the Swift Method to Modernize a Singapore Government Legacy System – Good description of what it feels like to be stuck in the legacy trap: “The [Singapore] government agency in this case study faced a similar issue with a legacy system that supported critical business processes, integrated with other business-critical applications, and was developed…
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The eternal first inning of cloud
LEGACY SOFTWARE AT BANKS! That’s the topic of the talk my colleague and I are giving tomorrow. You can watch it for free, check it out. In addition to the talk, you’ll get a free copy of my book on managing legacy software, Escaping the Legacy Trap Here’s the slides we have so far, a…
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A framework for council technology planning – SensibleTech – “We don’t have much – if any – ‘legacy’ code running on old virtualised mainframes like bits of central government do. In fact, a lot of what is called legacy in local government is anything but – it’s regularly updated and kept working and in line…
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🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com
De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ‘ Bookings burn-out machine’ from the Saturday supplement, which can also be found online – the developers complain about programming language Perl, which forms the basis of the online platform and which they believe is being held too rigidly.…
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Link: Technical Debt Can Be Good if it Drives Positive Business Outcomes
Drewitz used the example of Discover Card, which was able to eliminate thousands of lines of legacy code that was not driving a business outcome, but still kept some of that code because it was Source: Technical Debt Can Be Good if it Drives Positive Business Outcomes
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Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they’re doing
Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been re-reading The Art of Business Value, and re-came across this, to the contrary: This way of thinking has always struck me as a little strange. Our goal is to deliver value, to figure out how to meet the needs that are determined…
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Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat
“The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a number of factors that contribute to technology being considered legacy: being poorly supported, hard to update, poorly documented, non-compliant or inefficient. The range of breadth of these negative characteristics runs counter to an often passive view of legacy: stable historic…
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Link: Understanding legacy technology in government
Defining and dealing with legacy IT, from a UK government perspective: “Most organisations have an overarching IT strategy in line with their business strategy but some are taking an alternate approach to legacy. A common tactic is to migrate the business away from legacy in small parts, rather than all at once.” Original source: Understanding…
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Link: Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns
“The findings, based on more than 1,300 responses from DevOps and IT professionals, showed the top barriers to DevOps adoption involve stagnant organizational cultures (according to 22 percent of respondents); managing the jumble of legacy processes, IT infrastructure and newly created cloud environments (21 percent); and growing software complexity that impacts application modernization initiatives (20…
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Link: Serverless at Bustle
‘Probably the biggest is: how do you deal with the migration of legacy things? At Bustle we ended up mostly re-architecting our entire platform around serverless, and so that’s one option, but certainly not available to everybody. But even then, the first time we launched a serverless service, we brought down all of our Redis…
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Link: As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy
‘“the way Oracle plans on differentiating itself from Amazon is by offering a complete suite of platform services at a higher level than infrastructure services,” Ellison said. Open-source databases like MySQL and MongoDB have become very popular with developers in the cloud era, but there are still lots of companies running Oracle databases on their…
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