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Strangler Things: How to De-risk Legacy Code Migrations
Shawna Martell discusses a case study in which they disentangled systems with no customer impact and zero downtime, how they prioritize feature migration, tooling, and backwards compatibility.
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To Microservices and Back Again
Alexandra Noonan talks about what microservice antipatterns to avoid, the tradeoffs between microservices and a monolith, how to identify when it's time make a big change, and more.
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Getting Microservices and Legacy to Play Nicely Together with Event-Driven Architectures
Duston Mounts discusses how to use an event-driven architecture to connect microservices to legacy systems.
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Monolith Decomposition Patterns
Sam Newman shares some key principles and a number of patterns to use to incrementally decompose an existing system into microservices.
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From Monolith to riff Functions
Swapnil Bawaskar and Florent Biville take an in-depth look at riff and discuss strategies to break an actual monolith into its component functions and deploy them.
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Getting from Monolith to Microservices
Jimmy Bogard looks at strategies to break a monolith, from the front-end to the back, including database refactoring and analysis tools to see dependencies in legacy code.
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Rethinking Legacy and Monolithic Systems
Vaughn Vernon discusses removing entanglement in legacy and monolithic systems.
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Evolve Legacy Java EE Apps to Spring Boot Apps in One Minute
Valdir Scarin discusses the migration from a Java EE system to Spring at CCEE, Brazil: preparing the migration, evaluation of PoCs, various solutions found and the one executed, integration tests used
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Reactive DDD—When Concurrent Waxes Fluent
Vaughn Vernon gives practical guidance on using DDD to model business-driven solutions that result in software that is fluent, type-safe, and with core Reactive properties.
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The Great Migration: from Monolith to Service-Oriented
Jessica Tai provides an overview of trade-offs and motivation for the SOA migration and discusses Airbnb’s architectural tenets around service building.
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Meet Me in the Astrocade: Peace, Love, and 8-Bit Hardware Hacking
Rachel Simone Weil discusses the value of the occasional retreat to work on niche, obsolete electronics, sharing her experience hacking decades-old hardware such as the Astrocade and NES.
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AutoCAD & WebAssembly: Moving a 30 Year Code Base to the Web
Kevin Cheung presents a practical guide to getting legacy code to work on the web using AutoCAD as the example with the Emscripten compiler and WebAssembly.