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What Is Technical Debt?

Have your developers ever mentioned technical debt? Or are you wondering if you have technical debt? Are you interested in doing something about it? Is it even necessary to do…

Legacy Code Survey Results

A few months ago, I published a survey to gather some insights into how teams and individuals see legacy code. While the response was smaller than I wanted, it does…

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Disaster-Release Ratio: What Is It And What Can It Mean for You?

I was recently on the Tiny DevOps podcast and mentioned the Disaster-Release Ratio metric. And although I've written about it before, but the podcast made me decide I should dedicate…

Perfect or Ideal?

When we set out to improve our legacy code and reduce the technical debt, should we go for perfection or for an ideal solution? Should we be perfectionists or idealists?…

The Human Side of Legacy Code

I've written several articles on the technical sides of legacy code and technical debt. But now, let's focus on the emotional side, the human factor. I've touched on this previously,…

Strangle Your Legacy Code

So you've decided to do something about that piece of legacy code that is taking too much of your team's time. Then you should be aware of the strangler pattern.…

Monitoring Legacy Applications

So you have a legacy application with quite some technical debt? But you've started turning the ship around and the situation is improving, right? If you're planning on increasing the…