Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast: Episode 40 – CD for Legacy Applications

this morning on #c9d9 we discussed continuous delivery for legacy applications.

assuming your business did not start yesterday – you probably have some of those lying around: those applications that might be poorly understood, or poorly tested, that can be cumbersome or brittle, that may be difficult to update — but that somehow – still "just work".

this is the legacy code that keeps the lights on, but that you’re afraid to touch…

how do you deal with all your pre-devops applications?

should you embark on a journey to ‘devops’ify your legacy applications? if so, how can you bring legacy code and technical debt into the fold – as part of your cd pipelines?

on the show, we discussed:

• how do you define legacy?
• should you poke that bear?
• what are some of the challenges doing ci and cd for legacy apps?
• what are some of the best practices to bring devops practices to legacy applications — where should you start, and how to go about it?

watch the replay of the episode:

this episode features:

deepak karanth

chief architect and consultant. agile and devops champion. deepak also helps companies with technical strategy and process improvements.

@softwareyoga | softwareyoga.com

jean d’amore

consultant at thoughtworks australia and corsican polyglot programmer who likes to be underwater, cook, and keep his garden green.

@jeandamore | blog.corsamore.com

manuel pais

dev+build+qa=#devops advocate. people-first technologist @ skelton-thatcher. jack of all trades, master of continuous improvement.

@manupaisable | www.infoq.com/author/manuel-pais

tarun arora

tarun is obsessed with high-quality working software, continuous delivery and agile. he is a microsoft mvp in visual studio development tools and the author of ‘ devops & alm with tfs 2015 ’

@arora_tarun | www.visualstudiogeeks.com/

on the next episode of continuous discussions:

episode 41: creating an internal dev/test cloud

join us on may 17 , to discuss tips and best practices for offering a shared, consolidated, self-serve build/test cloud infrastructure and tool chain in your organization. (yes, it’s a mouth full, but it’s really interesting ;)).

this episode will feature:

chris riley

helping bringing #devops to the enterprise. analyst @fixateio

@hoardinginfo | devops.com/author/chrisriley/

himanshu chhetri

cto @ addteq, specializing in devops & atlassian tools implementation.

@0xhimanshu | nebula.addteq.com/blog

paul farrall

vp of operations at skytap.

@paulfarrall | www.skytap.com/blog/

phil dougherty

phil has over 10 years of experience building the backbone of the internet – from multi-continent private cloud environments, to fully automated public cloud infrastructure powering mobile commerce apis.

@phildougherty | blog.containership.io

continuous discussions (#c9d9) is a bi-weekly series. see all episodes here .