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Building resilience with circuit breakers in legacy monolithic software

Introduction If you're writing a small application and deploy it on a server, you can easily serve a couple of thousand users (depending on what it does). As your user

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Re-platforming introduction

This year, BookingGo is undertaking two large modernisation projects. Why are we doing this? Currently, our two main systems are both monoliths, and talk to each other through a centralised

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Working Effectively with Legacy Startup Code

In this first instalment in a series on Legacy Code in the Startup world, Engineering Lead, James Murphy, discusses the psychological aspects of dealing with legacy code and how, as developers, we can start the long and arduous journey to, like a recovering alcoholic,

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A Journey to Well-Structured Code

A Common Problem We've all come across 'that' application. The one nobody wants to touch. The one with the spaghetti code. The one that's so hard to understand that making