Chapter 18. Recommendations
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In this, our final, chapter, we rise above the day-to-day struggles of modernizing legacy systems and consider the principles that can guide you along your path to fully evolvable, modernized systems.
Find a Better Way
Find a better way of doing things rather than simply trying to improve the way things have been done in the past. Many modernization efforts simply replace old legacy code with new legacy code. Although this extends the useful lifetime of the legacy systems, this approach often leaves possible moves unplayed.
When deciding how ...
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