Isaac and I are excited to announce that we are taking our podcast to a book!
Never Rewrite: The Low Risk Guide To Modernizing Your Legacy Software is for everyone who maintains, or relies on, systems that you hate.
Systems that are poorly designed, unreliable, untestable, won’t scale, or make you tear your hair out. Where every change creates 2 new bugs. Systems that are so bad that they can’t be fixed.
Where it seems like the only option is to start over from scratch.
When it seems that you need a rewrite, you need Never Rewrite: The Low Risk Guide To Modernizing Your Legacy Software.
Because no one actually wants a rewrite –
Developers don’t want a rewrite, they want to work with well designed and tested code that doesn’t fight them every step of the way. They want to take pride and get joy from their work.
Managers don’t want a rewrite, they want the people they manage to be happy, for bug reports to be few, and for work to be delivered at a consistent pace.
Leadership doesn’t want a rewrite, they want to empower their people, have reliable systems, and consistent delivery.
If no one wants a rewrite, why does it seem like a reasonable solution? Because it seems like there are no other options.
We’re here to tell you that there is another way –
Never Rewrite will teach you how to modernize legacy software without a rewrite. The book will show you how rewrites destroy teams, increase turnover, and prevent growth. We will show you how to escape a rewrite in progress.
Along the way we share real stories of rewrite; from Sonos’ recent $500 million debacle, companies that paused new features for years, and projects that cost millions and never made it into production. Our case studies are full of lost opportunity, wasted money, and derailed careers.
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