InfoQ Homepage Refactoring Content on InfoQ
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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.
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Break Up with Your Front-end Monolith
Elisabeth Engel discusses refactoring a front-end monolith, offering advice including building a parent app shell to deal with loading and routing child components, and avoiding certain obstacles.
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Strangling the Monolith with a Data-driven Approach: A Case Study
Simon Duffy and David Julia discuss rewriting a monolith application using data-driven testing.
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A Peek into Elm Architecture
Jayaram Sankaranarayanan discusses the basics of functional programming principles, using Elm constructs, the architecture and how Elm enables reliable refactoring.
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Always Available
Claudio Ortolina discusses leveraging Elixir/OTP tools to provide continuous service even when a database is down, walking through the refactoring of an Elixir/Phoenix/PostgreSQL application.
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Refactoring Elixir - Lessons Learned from a Year on Exercism.Io
Devon Estes discusses some common, but less than optimal, solutions to some of the problems on exercism.io followed by refactoring, showing the performance improvements and tradeoffs made.
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Refactoring Mount Doom - Tackling Legacy Code
Franziska Sauerwein discusses how to refactor code for the right reasons and the right methods to use for time efficiently.
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Strategic Code Deletion
Michael Feathers describes techniques that generate more certainty around assessments of feature liveness, and strategies that can be used to remove code that does not have high value
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Applying Java 8 Idioms to Existing Code
Trisha Gee highlights the performance benefits of using Java 8, pros and cons, identifying code that makes sense to refactor with lambdas and streams, and what changes provide the most benefit.
