Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?

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Featuring:

Ole Bulbuk – Website, GitHub, X
Sandor Szücs – GitHub, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Ship of Theseus
GoTime Episode with Ole on the Berlin transition to Go
GoTime Episode with Bill Kennedy on TDD
OS projects mentioned by Ssandor
- skipper
  - proxytest
  - kubernetestest
- kube-ingress-aws-controller
Omega
BDD - Behaviour Driven Development
OS projects mentioned by Ole Bulbuk
- Spaghetti Analyzer
- Spaghetti Cutter

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)