Application Modernization Insights

Six Smalltalk applications with over two million lines of code were migrated, modernized, transformed, and made production-ready in parallel, expediting the project by seven years. The decision to move to Java Eighteen years ago, this company decided to have one programming language for their software applications: Java. All new product development would be based on

Brownfield refers to physical land requiring clean-up, upgrades, or development before leveraging the property for new purposes. Brownfield software development describes maintaining, upgrading, migrating, interacting with, or leveraging data from legacy applications. Most of the world’s developers work on and within brownfield applications and environments. While greenfield software development gets the industry buzz, it’s the

A few of our team members attended the Beyond the Beltway 2022 – Virtual Event hosted by the Center for Digital Government. It was an incredible opportunity to hear directly from state and local government CIOs and CSOs. They discussed the initiatives they are working on, the tech trends important to their region, and the

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 of agility, iteration, continuous delivery, and automation take center stage. Modernization must deal with the challenge of transforming millions of lines of existing legacy code,

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 of their platform. They also have billions of active users. It’s no wonder they chose the automation approach for migrating their legacy code to more

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 knowledgeable programmers retire, a daunting skills gap is created, making it harder to fill roles needed to keep these applications up and running. Industries such

Smalltalk Application Modernization Technology Smalltalk is a dynamic programming language and a pioneer in object-oriented technology. Its versatility, simplicity, and elegance allowed people to rapidly build complex systems across a variety of industries and applications. Although other programming languages surpassed Smalltalk in popularity for commercial application development, few captured its unique capabilities. This makes Smalltalk