Long-term code maintenance

Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?

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Featuring:

• Ole Bulbuk – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Sandor Szücs – Twitter, GitHub
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Ship of Theseus
• GoTime Episode with Ole on the Berlin transition to Go
• GoTime Episode with Bill Kennedy on TDD
• OS projects mentioned by Ssandor
  • skipper
    • proxytest
    • kubernetestest
  • kube-ingress-aws-controller
• Omega
• BDD - Behaviour Driven Development
• OS projects mentioned by Ole Bulbuk
  • Spaghetti Analyzer
  • Spaghetti Cutter

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!