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63: Why Legacy Code Rocks with Abraham Marín Pérez

Most of the time, we focus on a specific aspect of software development and maintenance and try to see how these small pieces fit in the big picture of working with legacy code. Not today, however.


Today we talk with Abraham Marín-Pérez, an extremely active Java developer with more than ten years of experience in various industries, about THE big picture and why legacy code rocks! Abraham is the author of Real World Maintainable Software and a co-author of Continuous Delivery in Java, a Java news editor at InfoQ, an advisor at the Meet-a-Mentor London Group, and a regular speaker at well-known international events. On top of that, he helps to run the London Java Community. When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to visit Abraham’s blog From Fragile to Agile!

Mentioned in this episode:

Abraham on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahammarin?lang=en

Abraham on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-marin-perez-45b88422/?originalSubdomain=uk

Real World Maintainable Software by Abraham Marín-Pérez at: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/real-world-maintainable-software/9781492042853/ 

Continuous Delivery in Java by Abraham Marín-Pérez and Daniel Bryant at:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/continuous-delivery-in/9781491986011/

Software Maintenance is an Anti-Pattern by Sarah Allen:

https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/02/23/software-maintenance-is-an-anti-pattern/

https://www.infoq.com

https://meetamentor.co.uk

https://www.fromfragiletoagile.com 

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Legacy Code Rocks

Legacy Code Rocks explores the world of modernizing existing software applications.

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In this show, hosts M. Scott Ford and Ray Myers are out to change the way you think about legacy code.

If you're like a lot of people, when you hear the words "legacy code" it conjures up images of big mainframes and archaic punch card machines. While that's true — it only tells a small part of the story. The code you leave behind is your legacy, so let's make it a good one.

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