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# Grappling With Clunky Old Software? Start by Understanding What’s Inside!


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 09:00–09:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 1 (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1189-grappling-with-clunky-old-software-start-by-understanding-what-s-inside)

## Description

Only 10% of development is about brand-new code. 90% is dealing with existing – often legacy – code. Learn how you can harness software intelligence to automate tedious manual effort, such as finding the actual internal architecture, plotting modernization or cloud migration journeys, documenting applications for onboarding and knowledge transfer, or tackling structural issues with application’s reliability, agility, safety. Discover how developers, tech leads, software architects, CTOs get instant insights into applications’ internals, make better decisions, modernize faster and safer.

## Speaker

### [Luc Perard](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@luc-perard)

VP Product Marketing, CAST Imaging


## Related talks at this congress

- [The Lifehacker's Guide to Software Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/269-the-lifehacker-s) — Julian Lang
- [Enhancing Developer Experience During Architecture Modernization](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/316-enhancing-developer) — Mauricio Frias, Shailesh Pathak
- [Specifications as the better way of software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/197-specifications-as) — Artem Manchenkov
- [Are you done yet? Mastering long-running processes in modern architectures](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/303-are-you-done-yet) — Bernd Ruecker