Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)

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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!

Kapitler

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Welcoming Ole & Sandor (00:00:50)

3. Experience with other languages (00:02:55)

4. On the Ship of Theseus (00:04:29)

5. Inheriting & maintaining old codebases (00:08:58)

6. Biggest problems for long-term maintainance (00:13:51)

7. On product-driven development (00:15:43)

8. Ole's approach to software development (00:19:14)

9. A better approach than TDD? (00:21:38)

10. Planning for long-term maintainability (00:24:27)

11. Improving test coverage (00:32:22)

12. Sandor on cleanroom implementation (00:33:38)

13. How can AI help with maintainability? (00:36:25)

14. It's time for Unpopular Opinions! (00:37:25)

15. Sandor's unpop (00:37:57)

16. Ole's unpop (00:39:38)

17. Natalie's unpop (00:41:35)

18. Time to Go! (00:42:34)

19. Outro (00:42:55)