Legacy code isn’t the enemy. Neglect is. We treat “legacy” like a curse word. But if it’s still running the business, it’s valuable. This week’s MPY.log is about improving legacy systems—without rewriting from scratch. 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/mpylogen…

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

I just published Event-Driven Everything: How to Think (and Build) in Events Instead of Requests medium.com/p/event-driven…

I just published Architectural Decision Records: How to Scale Clarity Without Slowing Down medium.com/p/architectura…

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: MPY.log/entry-013: Protecting Clean Systems from Messy Ones linkedin.com/pulse/mpylogen… via LinkedIn

I just published The Future of Software Architecture: Designing for Humans, Systems, and the Unknown medium.com/p/the-future-o…

2024, the year lash me...

The flag & the man

Your test passes locally. It fails in CI. You re-run it. It passes. That’s not randomness. It’s shared database state. I wrote about the problem—and a better way to fix it 👇medium.com/p/your-tests-d…

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