Hacker News with Generative AI: Legacy Systems

Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps (martinfowler.com)
Incremental replacement of a legacy mobile application is a challenging concept to articulate and execute. However, we believe by making the investment in the pre-requisites of legacy modernization, it is posible to yield benefits in the long term. This article explores the Strangler Fig pattern and how it can be applied to mobile applications. We chart the journey of an enterprise who refused to accept the high cost and risk associated with a full rewrite of their mobile application.

Mobile Development, Software Architecture, Legacy Systems

57 points by timbilt 20 days ago | 13 comments

An incremental approach to modernizing legacy mobile application: Strangler Fig (martinfowler.com)
Incremental replacement of a legacy mobile application is a challenging concept to articulate and execute. However, we believe by making the investment in the pre-requisites of legacy modernization, it is posible to yield benefits in the long term. This article explores the Strangler Fig pattern and how it can be applied to mobile applications. We chart the journey of an enterprise who refused to accept the high cost and risk associated with a full rewrite of their mobile application.

Mobile Development, Legacy Systems, Software Architecture, Refactoring

4 points by foweltschmerz 23 days ago | 0 comments

San Francisco to pay $212M to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks.

Technology, San Francisco, Public Transportation, Legacy Systems, Floppy Disks

14 points by LordAtlas 29 days ago | 11 comments

The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade (blogsystem5.substack.com)
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”.

Computer Architecture, Legacy Systems, History, Hardware, Operating Systems

49 points by todsacerdoti 45 days ago | 33 comments

Why COBOL Isn't the Problem (lucid.co)

Programming, Legacy Systems, COBOL

21 points by fanf2 81 days ago | 19 comments

OpenVMS x86 E9.2-3 fixes CDE (DECWindows) and adds a Guest Console (raymii.org)

Operating Systems, Software, Legacy Systems, OpenVMS

21 points by jandeboevrie 99 days ago | 10 comments

Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review) (usenix.org)

Legacy Systems, Software Development, Book Reviews

15 points by fanf2 105 days ago | 0 comments

Writing a Legacy PXE Bootloader (2bits.in)