WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Mar 23, 2021

Application Modernization and Rabbits

Niklas Heidloff

Managing a legacy monolith is like keeping a growing rabbit population in a crowded cage. Discover how to iteratively untangle systems into event-driven microservices without boiling the ocean.

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5:06 min

Modernizing legacy applications through proactive leadership

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Transforming legacy monoliths into modern software systems

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Incremental frontend modernization avoiding full rewrites

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Modernizing a legacy Java ERP monolithic architecture

Simon Martinelli

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Overcoming modernization challenges in aging monolithic codebases

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Evaluating choices for legacy application modernization

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