DevOps has revolutionized software engineering methodology by unifying development and operations to accelerate software delivery. The older-style waterfall approaches to greenfield application development are being put aside as DevOps principles…
Last year Facebook announced TransCoder, a tool that converts code from one programming language to another. Like many companies, Facebook also has legacy code that runs critical features and functionality…
Like an albatross, in-house applications once associated with good fortune have now become burdensome. These systems may still run business-critical processes or orchestrate data between commercial systems, but their underlying, aging technology has become a real liability. You know it’s only a matter of time before something fails, and it won’t be pretty.
It is getting progressively harder to find IT professionals with the right skills to maintain business-critical legacy applications. As the popularity of legacy programming languages fades and the few remaining…
