5 Reasons Why You Should NOT Rewrite Your System
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After many years working in your system, building, tinkering, improving, breaking and reassembling, you decide that what is really needed is a full software rewrite. After all, what can go wrong?
If you were ever involved in a full rewrite project, you know the answer. Absolutely everything can go wrong.
Why you think you want it There’s plenty of reasons for developers to advocate for a full software rewrite, but the most common is the software complexity and cost of maintenance.
Let’s get more technical. ‘Know your Language’ is a new category in my blog, about Programming Languages and their most common problems in enterprise environments
According to Tiobe Java is the most used backend programming language of the world. According to StackOverflow, this title goes to Javascript, but Java gets third place. Java and the JVM are also almost omnipresent in mobile, with Android using it as a platform.
There are hundreds of interview techniques, thousand of tools, each with a corresponding required knowledge to work with, countless “classic” algorithms and a myriad of different types of projects to try to evaluate a Software Developer. Yet, it is not easy to, nor formally or mathematically, separate a good Developer from a bad one. Why?
As always, there’s no easy answer to this question. The main reason for this is, perhaps, that we don’t know what a Software Developer actually does.
There sure is a lot of talk and work about estimates in software development. Whether you are in a big company, a small agency or a “one-man army” project, the idea that you can predict how long will it take to build a system is widespread and adopted by all.
Any management principle or project schedule has it as a bare minimum to operate. This is useful so you can plan in advance, and tackle the projects in a sane order, avoiding obvious trap holes and business errors.
Edit 17/10/2024: if you want a real lock mechanism for jobs, your best bet is probably Shedlock
Warning: technical post ahead. You may want to take the children out of the room!
Spring-boot took the market by storm in the last years. Spring, as is, with MVC dependency had already bitten a huge chunk of job posts and online questions, but with the Boot simplicity, it practically set the new standart for frameworks in Java language.