This morning on #c9d9 we discussed Continuous Delivery for legacy applications.
Assuming your business did not start yesterday – you probably have some of those lying around: those applications that might be poorly understood, or poorly tested, that can be cumbersome or brittle, that may be difficult to update — but that somehow – still – just work.
This is the legacy code that keeps the lights on, but that you’re afraid to touch…
How do you deal with all your pre-DevOps applications?
Should you embark on a journey to ‘DevOps’ify your legacy applications? If so, how can you bring legacy code and technical debt into the fold – as part of your CD pipelines?
On the show, we discussed:
- How do you define Legacy?
- Should you poke that bear?
- What are some of the challenges doing CI and CD for legacy apps?
- What are some of the best practices to bring DevOps practices to legacy applications- where should you start, and how to go about it?
Watch the replay of the episode:
This episode features:

Chief Architect and Consultant. Agile and DevOps Champion. Deepak also helps companies with technical strategy and process improvements.
@SoftwareYoga | softwareyoga.com

Consultant at ThoughtWorks Australia and corsican polyglot programmer who likes to be underwater, cook, and keep his garden green.
@jeandamore | blog.corsamore.com

Dev+Build+QA=#DevOps advocate. People-first technologist @ Skelton-Thatcher. Jack of all trades, master of continuous improvement.
@manupaisable | www.infoq.com/author/Manuel-Pais

Tarun is obsessed with high-quality working software, continuous delivery and Agile. He is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Development Tools and the author of ‘DevOps & ALM with TFS 2015’
@arora_tarun | www.visualstudiogeeks.com/
On the next episode of Continuous Discussions:
Episode 41: Creating an Internal Dev/Test Cloud
Join us on May 17, to discuss tips and best practices for offering a shared, consolidated, self-serve build/test cloud infrastructure and tool chain in your organization. (yes, it’s a mouth full, but it’s really interesting ;)).
This episode will feature:

Helping bringing #DevOps to the enterprise. Analyst @fixateio
@HoardingInfo | devops.com/author/chrisriley/

CTO @ Addteq, specializing in DevOps & Atlassian Tools implementation.
@0xhimanshu | nebula.addteq.com/blog


Phil has over 10 years of experience building the backbone of the internet – from multi-continent private cloud environments, to fully automated public cloud infrastructure powering mobile commerce APIs.
@phildougherty | blog.containership.io
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