I believe I’ve heard a similar quote from Christopher Alexander(?) on building architecture:”first we shape the buildings - then they shape us”.

So one might be a paraphrase of the other?

Modernization will almost certainly increase pressure on your bottlenecks so it's important to identify them in advance.

Things will get worse before they get better as you start to unpack all the dependencies and address the neglect.

#legacyModernization #architectureModernization

You’re not using a VPN are you?
We saw issues (and still experience them) when using WSL and activating a VPN connection - we needed to use a WSL VPN-KIT in order to make it work reliable.

I haven’t checked if we saw the same error code as you’ve posted…

You could invoke a full Domain Driven Design workshop and find the boundaries - But I doubt that would be quick? I’ve looked at the product CodeScene which should determine boundaries exactly based on e.g. code that changes at the same pace? Not tried it (yet!) though.

Interstellar (just to mention one). The way the organ variations is played has so many “vibes” of Bachs Fuga!

I can’t count the number of times I’ve end-to-end listened the soundtrack for Jurassic Park. I can pick that up anytime and still enjoy listening to it!

This also means you’re tooling and workflows have to be set up to allow for easy iteration.

If it’s only easy to do something the first time, but it’s a pain to change any of it later, then the tool has failed.

Iteration is part of all work, so always think of workflows as repeatable instances.

Are there any other specifics that should be considered if we were to use this with an OpenShift cluster hosted in AWS (e.g. “ROSA”)?
Or would we work in a similar manner?

"The very person who has work habits that are highly desirable for work in programming may readily be rated low by a timed aptitude test although he may in fact be the kind of programmer who would have been rated high by his supervisor if he were given the opportunity of employment."

My main concern is having data of high enough quality for creating integration or end2end tests.
I’m thinking of maybe using an LLM for that but it might not get the subtle requirement in data consistency right?
Hence I’m thinking the best option is to go with as many unit tests as possible?

I’m in particular interested in how this would look in your CI/CD pipeline if it’s using ArgoCD for deploying microservices.

I imagine the unit tests being run at build time - no need to deploy a service if they fail.

Integration and end2end tests would then run post-deploy to a staging env?

Nothing like a good cup of coffee… love that comic!

At my work (larger financial institution in my country) we’re actively using and promoting the use of VSCode and the ZOWE extension internally to enable developers unfamiliar with PCOMM and 3270 editor to contribute to our COBOL codebase.
We’re continuously DevOps’ing at our current COBOL pipelines

I like the ideas behind an “unhedged call option”. You sold a financial instrument to someone and you gave no control over what it will cost if / when they decide to execute their option.
This is not a concept I’ve coined - I believe it originates back 15 years ago from Chris Matts (?)

I believe it was during a panel debate at #gotocon where @martinfowler.com , @tastapod.com , @davefarley77.bsky.social , @hollycummins.com and @trishagee.bsky.social had this conversation and where this suggestion was brought up?
To use AI to propose solutions?
youtu.be/86-Dy5U2p5

Based alone on what’s written on the cover of that book, it looks like it covers all of the the directions we’re currently looking to try and align teams across our company AND consolidate to reduce the cognitive load.
Thank you for highlighting it!