VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Refactoring Legacy Software: Strangler Fig Pattern 2024-04-01

   tags: microservice, monolith, programming/design-pattern, software-engineering/legacy, software-engineering/refactoring

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   • Red Hat - The pros and cons of the Strangler architecture pattern
   • Azure Architecture - Strangler Fig pattern
   • Microservices Pattern: Strangler application
2. Legacy Rails: Silently Judging You 2023-06-03

   tags: framework/ruby-on-rails, legacy, programming/ruby, security/audit

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   How can you judge the quality of a legacy Rails application?

   • bundler-audit
   • rails-erd
3. Chris James - The Tests Talk 2022-05-31

   tags: programming/go, programming/test-driven-development, programming/testing

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   • LondonGophers 2018-12-12: Chris James - How to not build legacy systems that everyone hates
   • Slides
4. xkcd: XKCDE 2018-05-02

   tags: virtualization, wtf, xkcd

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   • https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda.pdf
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
5. The Chomskybot 2018-03-27

   tags: bot, english, grammar, programming/lisp, programming/perl, random, text

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   • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/foggy.faq.html
   • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/foggy.lsp
   • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/fogcode.html
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
   • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nelsonde/indexbots.html
   • http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/
   • http://www.simonlaven.com/
   • http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/mm/mmlinks.htm
6. GRUB dual-boot considerations 2018-01-05

   tags: boot, bootloader/grub, linux, microsoft/windows

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   • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dual_boot_with_Windows
   • https://askubuntu.com/questions/88384/how-can-i-repair-grub-how-to-get-ubuntu-back-after-installing-windows
   • https://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/29504-bios-mode-see-if-windows-boot-uefi-legacy-mode.html
7. I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code -- what now? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange 2017-10-16

   tags: code, development, legacy, programming/php, programming/testing, software-engineering/refactoring, unit

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   • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6395/how-do-you-dive-into-large-code-bases
   • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6268/when-is-a-big-rewrite-the-answer
   • https://www.red-gate.com/blog/software-development/legacy-code
   • https://craftedsw.blogspot.ro/2011/06/change-in-attitude-legacy-code.html
   • https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/7blo1b/refactoring_huge_ci_2_application/
   • https://leanpub.com/mlaphp
   • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/184227/migrating-legacy-procedural-code-to-mvc-without-rewriting/184241
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/ax88ot/i_am_taking_on_a_custom_crappy_php_application/
8. Adding unit tests to legacy code - Stack Overflow 2017-10-16

   tags: development, legacy, programming/test-driven-development, programming/testing, software-engineering/refactoring, unit

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   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/748503/how-do-you-introduce-unit-testing-into-a-large-legacy-c-c-codebase

   • https://www.downrightlies.net/posts/2015/05/18/how-to-retrofit-tests-to-legacy-code.html

   • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/227893/does-it-make-sense-to-write-tests-for-legacy-code-when-there-is-no-time-for-a-co

   • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122014/what-are-the-key-points-of-working-effectively-with-legacy-code

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characterization_test

   • https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131177052/

     • http://www.netobjectives.com/system/files/WorkingEffectivelyWithLegacyCode.pdf
     • https://www.slideshare.net/nashjain/working-effectively-with-legacy-code-presentation
9. Migrating from legacy to container-based infrastructure - Travis CI 2015-07-18

   tags: continuous-integration, continuous-integration/travis, linux, linux/container, linux/container/docker, source-code-management/github

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   http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/workers/container-based-infrastructure/ http://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-17-faster-builds-with-container-based-infrastructure/