Dylan Beattie — Ctrl-Alt-Del: learning to love legacy code

Ближайшая конференция: DotNext 2023 — 15–16 сентября (Offline, Москва) Подробности и билеты: — — У Дилана всегда хорошие доклады и высокие рейтинги, он умеет делать зажигательные кейноуты. The world runs on legacy code. For every greenfield progressive web app with 100% test coverage, there are literally hundreds of archaic line-of-business applications running in production — systems with no tests, no documentation, built using out-of-date tools, languages and platforms. It’s the code developers love to hate: it’s not exciting, it’s not shiny, and it won’t look good on your CV — but the world runs on legacy code, and, as developers, if we’re going to work on anything that actually matters, we’re going to end up dealing with legacy. To work effectively with this kind of system, we need to answer some fundamental questions: why was it built this way in the first place? What’s happened over the years it’s been running in production? And, m