Legacy Code Rocks

There is some disconnect between business people and engineers when talking about technical debt. While engineers understand the metaphor as a credit card debt that has to be paid off entirely and as…

How to ensure that your code review practices are not just an expensive bottleneck in your team’s productivity but its ultimate superpower?

Today we talk with Michaela Greiler, a Head of Research at …

What does it mean to build a cost-free feature in the software, and are cost-free features even possible?

Today we talk with Avdi Grimm. Avdi is a software developer with more than twenty years of ex…

Every once in a while, it is wise to stop for a second and think about why we do things in a specific way and whether we need to change something. This is where rethinking processes kick in. 

Today w…

There is an eternal dilemma among software developers - should we try our best to predict the future and build it into our code, or should we just plan for frequent iterations? 

Today we talk with As…

To build anew or to rebuild? Many developers have a knee-jerk reaction to start building existing software systems from scratch because they think that is the easiest way forward. 

Today, we talk wit…

Working on legacy code is never easy, but some programming languages make it more enjoyable. 

Today, we talk with Richard Feldman, the creator of the Roc programming language, the author of Elm in Ac…

Product teams are scared of technical debt and refactoring. They press on to make something new, not to question what they have already created. However, the urgency to deliver new products carries t…

How can cooking help you have a better team?

Today, we talk with Kimberly Fox. Kimberly leads virtual and in-person cooking classes and is a recipe developer and writer for her blog, From Market to T…

In this episode, we are talking with Michael Kennedy, Python expert and the founder and host of two podcasts - Talk Python To Me and Python Bytes. He also runs Talk Python Training which provides onl…

Software security has become one of the most important topics affecting the lives of millions of people. 

Today we talk with Rob Dickinson, a co-founder, and CTO of Resurface Labs, a data-driven API …

We design software within a particular context. When that context changes, so should the software. But change is often difficult. 

Today we talk with João Rosa, an independent consultant focused on h…

If you try to fix broken things in JavaScript, you will probably break the Internet because the entire Internet expects those "mistakes" to be there. Today we talk with David Neal, a family man, geek…

Legacy becomes legacy only when the memory of how the system works is gone. This is where observability kicks in. 

Today we talk with Hunter Madison. Hunter is the cloud architect for Instana, an ob…

The world as we know it wouldn't exist without open-source software. We have learned to rely and depend on these free products that magically get maintained and updated by communities of volunteers. …

Agile has become the mainstream in software engineering, and agile principles should feel natural to legacy code menders. 

Today we talk with Michael Toppa, the Senior Engineering manager at FastRuby…

Imagine if you could refactor legacy code with a single CLI command? Well, you can, at least if you are working with PHP. 

Today we talk with Matthias Noback, a long-time web developer and the author…

There is a lot of buzz around Kotlin, a new Java-based programming language that many think might eventually replace Java. But is all this talk justified, and are the predictions of replacement reali…

We all want our code to be stable and resilient to future challenges. But we need to strike the right balance between testing our systems and the cost of failure. This is much harder to achieve than …

We all strive to write an ideal code - easily readable, functional, and clean. We use many tools to achieve this. However, we often forget why we need our code to be tidy. 

Today we are talking with …