Conquering Legacy Code: Find the context you Need without the Digging

Old code comes with baggage. Outdated architectural decisions, hidden dependencies, and deprecated libraries all require extra time to maintain and modify. As a codebase ages, it gets increasingly difficult to find the context behind how key systems work, why things were written a certain way, and who to talk to about the code. 

While legacy code is inevitable, understanding it shouldn't require herculean effort. What if you could find the missing context you need without wasting hours searching through incomplete documentation or waiting for teammates to respond? In this talk, we explore approaches for preventing knowledge loss as codebases scale and strategies to tackle legacy technical debt thoughtfully. We discuss how to eliminate the guesswork in legacy code by meaningfully augmenting your code with your team’s collective knowledge.


Speaker

Dennis Pilarinos

Founder and CEO @Unblocked

Dennis Pilarinos is the founder and CEO of Unblocked, a developer platform that gives teams helpful answers to questions about their codebase. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Buddybuild, a mobile-focused continuous integration service that Apple acquired in 2018 and launched as Xcode Cloud. A seasoned technologist and business leader, Dennis has a track record of building, running, and scaling the teams and technologies behind leading developer platforms at Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and Apple. He holds multiple patents and is passionate about tackling real-world problems for developers.

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Your developers know how to write code. What slows them down is the missing context to know what code to write. Unblocked gives engineering teams the answers they need to get their jobs done – without having to wait on or interrupt their teammates.

 

 

Date

Monday Nov 18 / 01:35PM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Pacific LM

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