Code Upcycling: Evolving Legacy Code

Last October our engineering team met up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and CTO, Michael Tutty, talked about the challenges of improving legacy code.  Developers are notoriously guilty of insisting a full rewrite of code, particularly when it wasn’t their code to start with.  But what if that code is already to market and generating revenue?

In Michael’s talk, “Code Upcycling: Evolving Legacy Code”, he explains The GForge Group is dealing with this and he gives a few realistic alternatives: