Modern Software Practices in a Legacy System • Audun Strand & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEx5khR4g7PJozVmHNpQTVrk1QRC7YaJu) at CodeNode (https://www.codenode.live) in London. gotopia.tech (http://gotopia.tech) Read the full transcription of this interview here (https://gotopia.tech/articles/modern-software-practices-in-a-legacy-system) Audun Fauchald Strand (https://twitter.com/audunstrand) - Principal Engineer at NAV Kevlin Henney (https://twitter.com/kevlinhenney) - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION Audun Fauchald Strand, principal engineer at NAV (https://www.nav.no/en/Home) (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration), shares the story of how they modernized their long-running open source platform NAIS (https://nais.io/) . In their conversation, Audun and Kevlin Henney touch on topics such as how to organize massive amounts of data and if legacy code can be considered as something good. You’ll also find out how open source fits in a large governmental software team that focuses on transparency. RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know (https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ) Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U) Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (https://amzn.to/3pZuHsQ) Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5 (https://amzn.to/3GAPzN7) Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design (https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm) Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh (https://amzn.to/3tTCwAC) Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices (https://amzn.to/2Nml96E) Sam Newman • Building Microservices (https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs) Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running (https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL) Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture (https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0) Rishu Mehra • What is Data Observability (https://amzn.to/3zdkxFK) Twitter (https://twitter.com/GOTOcon) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto-) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences) Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL (https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1) - new videos posted almost daily. Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com) Twitter (https://twitter.com/GOTOcon) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/goto_con) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto-) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences) CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL (https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1) - new videos posted daily!