InfoQ Homepage Refactoring Content on InfoQ
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Beyond Platform Thinking at RB Global – Build Things No One Expects, in a Place No One Expects It
Ranbir Chawla discusses the strategy to simplify a complex spider web of non-cloud native SAAS and homegrown systems into a well factored API driven platform with well-defined domain boundaries.
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Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix
Javier Fernandez-Ivern discusses why a high confidence change process for code bases is needed, how zero-noise diffs help close the confidence gap, and recommended practices for building a diff system
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Blazing Fast, Minimal Change - Speed up Your Code by Refactoring to Rust
Lily Mara takes an existing codebase and rewrites part of it in Rust, focusing on writing a Rust reimplementation, cross-language regression testing, performance benchmarking of the new code.
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Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.
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Piranha: Reducing Feature Flag Debt @Uber
Murali Krishna Ramanathan describes the experiences building and deploying Piranha, an automated code refactoring tool to delete code corresponding to stale feature flags.
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Safe Refactoring!
Jakub Pilimon talks about "Blue/Green Refactoring with Parallel Models".
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Coding Without Complexity
Ellen Chisa talks about complexity in software and the need to remove it as much as possible. One possibility is to remove something that is not absolutely needed as a way to reduce complexity.
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Getting from Monolith to Microservices
Jimmy Bogard looks at strategies to break a monolith, from the front-end to the back, including database refactoring and analysis tools to see dependencies in legacy code.
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Rethinking Legacy and Monolithic Systems
Vaughn Vernon discusses removing entanglement in legacy and monolithic systems.
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Improving the Design of Existing Software
Steve Smith looks at some common places for signs of app design degradation, showing steps to take to improve the code. Examples use C#/.NET but are generally applicable regardless of platform.
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Succession: A Refactoring Story
Katrina Owen presents an end-to-end refactoring that demonstrates simple strategies to avoid misadventures.