The Importance of Managing Legacy Code

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Hello everyone and welcome to THE .NET Core Podcast. An award-winning podcast where we reach into the core of the .NET technology stack and, with the help of the .NET community, present you with the information that you need in order to grok the many moving parts of one of the biggest cross-platform, multi-application frameworks on the planet.

I am your host, Jamie "GaProgMan" Taylor. In this episode, I talked with M. Scott Ford of the Legacy Code Rocks podcast about managing your applications and legacy code. We talked about why metric, analytics, and logging are so important; we talked about what legacy code is; and Scott also talked about why tests are so important to him.

Along the way, Scott shared some amazing tips for developers regardless of where they are in their journey, and regardless of the technology stack that they use - including how he uses pact.io to make integration testing a breeze.

He also shares some of the ways that he stays up to date with all of the libraries and packages that are out there - pro tip: it's related to our chat about metrics, but I won't spoil anything for you just yet - So make sure that you stick around to the end of the episode to find out about those.

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at https://dotnetcore.show/episode-122-managing-dependencies-with-m-scott-ford

Useful Links from the episode:

• The .NET Core Podcast Discord Server
• Legacy Code Rocks
• pact.io
• Corgi Bytes
• Tabs and Spaces
• The Ship of Theseus
• The Palace by Rudyard Kipling
• KonMari method
• Playwright
• Playwright .NET
• Microsoft Dev Blogs.
• InfoQ
• Change Log podcast
• Some relevant Awesome lists on GitHub:
  • Awesome .NET Core
  • Awesome Web
  • Awesome React
  • Awesome Awesome
• NuGet.org stats
• Freshli
  • freshli.app
  • github.com/corgibytes/freshli

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