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87: Legacy Code in Times of Crisis with Joao-Pierre Ruth

How has COVID-19 affected legacy code based systems, and what do we do to address the issue?


Today we talk with Joao-Pierre Ruth, a technology journalist at InformationWeek where he covers DevOps and cloud computing. Joao-Pierre gives us his insights on the topic that inspired his recent article “COBOL, COVID-19 and Coping with Legacy’s Tech-debt”. After listening to the episode, connect with Joao-Pierre on LinkedIn and Twitter, and check out his articles for InformationWeek.

Mentioned in this episode:

Joao-Pierre on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaopierre/

Joao-Pierre on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jpruth 

Joao-Pierre’s author profile on InformationWeek: https://www.informationweek.com/author-bio.asp?author_id=5108& 

InformationWeek at https://www.informationweek.com

Joao-Pierre Ruth, COBOL, COVID-19, and Coping with Legacy Tech Debt at https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/security-and-risk-strategy/cobol-covid-19-and-coping-with-legacy-tech-debt/a/d-id/1337516

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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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