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Published inNov 2023
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Matt Eland
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Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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Accomplishing large-scale refactorings

In my experience, successfully performing large-scale refactorings is one of the hardest challenges in all of software engineering.

I define large-scale refactoring as something on the scale of replacing an application or a major architectural layer of an application. Moving an application from one database technology to another, replacing a REST API with a gRPC API, upgrading from Web Forms to Blazor, or replacing your entire service layer are all examples of this.

Why large refactorings are difficult

These projects are challenging because they typically take longer than a single sprint to accomplish and must meet feature parity with software that has been developed over the years.

Additionally, software engineering projects are notoriously hard to accurately estimate, which is one of the reasons developers prefer agile software development over more traditional project management methodologies such as waterfall. Delays in software...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835089989

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Matt Eland

Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
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