Legacy Code Rocks
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Legacy Code Rocks
Legacy Code Rocks explores the world of modernizing existing software applications. Hosts Andrea Goulet and M. Scott Ford of Corgibytes 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 mainfr...
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Innovation in Legacy with Dave Thomas
There are three groups of people around every legacy system - those who are stuck with it, those who don't want to be with it, and those who love it a...
Code Reviews with Chelsea Troy
One of the reasons why it is difficult to work with legacy code is the lack of preserving the contextual reasons for past coding choices.
Today...
Modernizing Code with Edward Hieatt
Mending code while it is running is risky. One wrong move and a small change can bring the entire system to a halt.
Today we talk with Edward H...
Mending Code with AI with Ray Myers
AI proves to be great at writing new code, but what are its capabilities when it comes to mending the old one?
Today we talk with Ray Myers, a l...
Quality-Check of External Dependencies with Feross Aboukhadijeh
Many of the largest companies rely on third-party code to run critical parts of their software. However, there's often little focus on ensuring the qu...
From Vintage Computers to Test Automation with Sophia McKeever
How do the love for vintage computers and test automation come together? Can one inspire another and how?
Today we talk with Sophia Mckeever, a...
Kubescape with Shauli Rozen
In Kubernetes, security is a joint effort between security engineers and DevOps. A perfect tool to bring these two together is Kubescape, an open-sour...
Reviewing Logs with Joe Gross
Reviewing logs for security threats and operational functions can be a cumbersome task. Attention is a finite resource, and it is easy to miss somethi...
Managing Security Services with Scott McCrady
Cyber security is not a core activity of most software development companies. It is an outsourced activity that simply has to be done so that we can d...
Developer Experience with Ramiro Berrelleza
How to set up developers for success? For the longest time, companies left developers to their own devices to figure out the workflows and tools they...
Sustainable Opensource with Cory O’Donel
Back in August 2023, HashiCorp announced that after nine years of Terraform being open source under the MPL license, they were switching it to a non-o...
Software Bills of Behavior with Andrew Hendela
Simply knowing what is in your software is not any guarantee of safety. We need to know what that software does versus what we expect it to do. We nee...
Socio-Political Implications of Legacy Code with Amy Newell
In the age of rising AI, we cannot neglect the topic of the social and political consequences of the code we leave behind. Today, we talk with Amy New...
Automatic Refactoring with Jonathan Schneider
Automating refactoring and code transformation is a fascinating and efficient way to eliminate technical debt. Today, we talk with Jonathan Schneider,...
Disruptive Thinking with Lance James
Imagine if you could counter ransomware by exploiting it to create a backup of your attacked data for you. Now, that would be disruptive!
Today...
From Monolith to Understanding with Nelida Velazquez
Going from monolith to microservices is one of the most popular topics in software engineering. But jumping the boat without understanding why can be...
The Old New Thing with Raymond Chen
Microsoft invited the Legacy Code Rocks team to attend Microsoft Build Conference and gave us access to the studio on the third floor of the Seattle C...
Playwright with Debbie O’Brien and Max Schmitt
Microsoft invited the Legacy Code Rocks team to attend Microsoft Build Conference and gave us access to the studio on the third floor of the Seattle C...
Windows Terminal with Kayla Cinnamon
Microsoft invited the Legacy Code Rocks team to attend Microsoft Build Conference and gave us access to the studio on the third floor of the Seattle C...
Passwordless Cyber Security with Justin Richer
How many of your passwords do you actually know? Now, how many of those passwords are already on the black web? We are living in a fascinating age of...
Servicing Technical Debt with Dave Mangot
There is some disconnect between business people and engineers when talking about technical debt. While engineers understand the metaphor as a credit...
Code Review with Michaela Greiler
How to ensure that your code review practices are not just an expensive bottleneck in your team’s productivity but its ultimate superpower?
Toda...
Carrying Cost with Avdi Grimm
What does it mean to build a cost-free feature in the software, and are cost-free features even possible?
Today we talk with Avdi Grimm. Avdi is...
Process Improvement with Stefanni Brasil
Every once in a while, it is wise to stop for a second and think about why we do things in a specific way and whether we need to change something. Thi...
Building Durable Software with Ashu Chatterji
There is an eternal dilemma among software developers - should we try our best to predict the future and build it into our code, or should we just pla...
Software Design with John Ousterhout
To build anew or to rebuild? Many developers have a knee-jerk reaction to start building existing software systems from scratch because they think tha...
Elm, Roc, and Rust with Richard Feldman
Working on legacy code is never easy, but some programming languages make it more enjoyable.
Today, we talk with Richard Feldman, the creator o...
Refactoring in Product Teams with Andreas Creten
Product teams are scared of technical debt and refactoring. They press on to make something new, not to question what they have already created. Howev...
STEM and Cooking with Kimberly Fox
How can cooking help you have a better team?
Today, we talk with Kimberly Fox. Kimberly leads virtual and in-person cooking classes and is a rec...
Python with Michael Kennedy
In this episode, we are talking with Michael Kennedy, Python expert and the founder and host of two podcasts - Talk Python To Me and Python Bytes. He...
Software Security with Rob Dickinson
Software security has become one of the most important topics affecting the lives of millions of people.
Today we talk with Rob Dickinson, a co...
Evolving Software with João Rosa
We design software within a particular context. When that context changes, so should the software. But change is often difficult.
Today we talk...
Legacy JavaScript with David Neal
If you try to fix broken things in JavaScript, you will probably break the Internet because the entire Internet expects those "mistakes" to be there....
Observability with Hunter Madison
Legacy becomes legacy only when the memory of how the system works is gone. This is where observability kicks in.
Today we talk with Hunter Mad...
Open-Source Software with Naomi Ceder
The world as we know it wouldn't exist without open-source software. We have learned to rely and depend on these free products that magically get main...
Agile Practices in Legacy Code Mending with Michael Toppa
Agile has become the mainstream in software engineering, and agile principles should feel natural to legacy code menders.
Today we talk with Mi...
Rector with Matthias Noback
Imagine if you could refactor legacy code with a single CLI command? Well, you can, at least if you are working with PHP.
Today we talk with Ma...
From Java to Kotlin with Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce
There is a lot of buzz around Kotlin, a new Java-based programming language that many think might eventually replace Java. But is all this talk justif...
Code Testing With Melanie Frank
We all want our code to be stable and resilient to future challenges. But we need to strike the right balance between testing our systems and the cost...
Checks and Balances in Coding with Samuel Taggart
We all strive to write an ideal code - easily readable, functional, and clean. We use many tools to achieve this. However, we often forget why we need...