Kill It with Fire

2 Cannibal Code

If technology advances in cycles, you might assume the best legacy modernization strategy is to wait a decade or two for paradigms to shift back and leapfrog over. If only! For all that mainframes and clouds might have in common in general, they have a number of significant differences in the implementation that block easy transitions. While the architectural philosophy of time-sharing has come back in vogue, other components of technology have been advancing at a different pace. You can divide any single product into an infinite number of elements: hardware, software, interfaces, protocols, and so on. Then you can add specific techniques within those categories. Not all cycles are in sync. The odds of a modern piece of technology ...