Craft 2024 - Arlo Belshee
Arlo Belshee
Distinguished Engineer at Deep Roots
About Arlo Belshee

Arlo Belshee, 20-year legacy code and DevOps veteran, has a passion for zero bugs. A firm believer in mending code, Arlo's current work is his company, Dig Deep Roots | Refactoring for Depth, where he teaches technical practices that unwind legacy code safely a codebase at a time.

Talk
Prevent Rewrites - a Map from Legacy Ugliness to Modern DevSecOps
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
legacy code
management
refactoring
vital skills
Level: General

Have you noticed that every product seems to need a rewrite to change technology, then one to implement the new security architecture, then one to clear accumulated technical debt, and then…when will it end? Even teams that used TDD and DevOps to build the last version fall in the same trap because the business changes. Are we doomed to rewrite?In this talk, Arlo will show a new way of working tha...