How to split a monolith and legacy code via code-sketches

Legacy-code monoliths are one of these challenges which lead often to controversy discussions and questions like:

  • What are the pros and cons of getting rid of the code-base?
  • How to get rid of it, via a big-bang or splitting it step by step?
  • What are the efforts?

In this post I’d like to describe a way how to create the first code-sketch which could lead to an insight into the possibilities to tackle the beast step by step. Weiterlesen →

Prototype sketching with Apache Camel

Almost every new project contains legacy code, legacy components or systems. Besides the business-logic a lot of boilerplate code has to be created; only to realize the integration of the legacy parts. Additionally at the beginning of a project it is not clear if the chosen approach works to integrate the legacy components. Coding different scenarios to integrate several technologies is not done within a few hours, more likely in a couple of days. I.e an architecture or integration prototype would be helpful to verify the ideas and figuring out possible issues and challenges up front. Weiterlesen →