Articles tagged with Legacy Systems

Writing on understanding, extending, and surviving older systems without romanticizing rewrites.

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Why Legacy Systems Are Worth Your Time

I know. When you hear legacy, you think , , weird edge cases, and “what the hell just broke now.” Every moment feels frustrating. You don’t know what the next change will trigge...

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How Teams Choose Language

Choosing a programming language is one of the most defining decisions in software development. It shapes how a team writes, maintains, and reasons about their system. Today, the...

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Refactoring Untested Code

Most teams realize they are dealing with a legacy repo only when a tiny change turns into an operation. A oneline fix suddenly needs three people, two days of manual checks, and...

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Buggy Code on Production, Survived

Areca is the name of the billing engine I am working on for Turk Telekom. Funny enough, it is also the name of the flowers we bought to freshen the office. We wanted the office...