RailsConf 2017: An Optimistic Proposal for Making Horrible Code... Bearable by Joe Mastey
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26RailsConf 2017: An Optimistic Proposal for Making Horrible Code... Bearable by Joe Mastey
The attempted rewrite is over, the dust has settled, and the monolith isn’t going away. After all, it’s still the app that makes all the money. On the other hand, nobody wants to work on it, every new feature takes forever, and your entire team is afraid of making any change for fear of the whole thing collapsing in on itself.
In this session, we’ll walk through some of the technical and social problems that arise from difficult codebases. We’ll learn to stop making things worse, to measure what we need to change, and start making progress.
In the thousand mile journey, here are the first steps.