SE Radio 587: M. Scott Ford on Managing Dependency Freshness

M. Scott Ford, CTO of Corgibytes and host of the Legacy Code Rocks podcast, discusses managing dependency freshness, measuring it, gaining insights from monitoring it over time, and mitigating risks of working with outdated dependencies. He also explores challenges with dependency upgrades, introduces a tool called Dependable, and discusses approaches to testing different types of dependencies in software development. Additionally, he explains the concept of 'freshly' and its relation to dependency freshness metrics, discusses managing dependencies in multiple programming languages with Freshly, and analyzes the architecture of the central CLI and S-bombs for analysis and due diligence.