Refactor This With Markus Eisele: Why Modernization Should Be An Architectural Requirement
In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to Markus Eisele (Developer Adoption Lead at Red Hat) about software modernization, best practices, tools, and stories. Markus is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, founder of the JavaLand conference, and O’Reilly author.
In this episode, we discuss:
What does a Developer Adoption Lead do? (2:35)
Markus’s first taste of modernizing an application built in Java 1.2, powered by pizza and beer (8:45)
The continuous evolution of choices in Java, and what that means (15:57)
How to refactor aging applications when the original developers retire? (22:42)