Last October our engineering team met up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and CTO, Michael Tutty, talked about the challenges of improving legacy code. Developers are notoriously guilty of insisting a full rewrite of code, particularly when it wasn’t their code to start with. But what if that code is already to market and generating revenue?
In Michael’s talk, “Code Upcycling: Evolving Legacy Code”, he explains The GForge Group is dealing with this and he gives a few realistic alternatives: