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
In schedule:
Purple Stage
May 31, 10:30 - 11:15 CET

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 use TDD and DevOps fall in the same trap because the business changes. Are we doomed to rewrite?Rewrites happen because we can see a future we would like, but we can't see an i...