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Discussion on: Refactoring Legacy Monoliths - Part 3: Game Plan And Refactoring Tips

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Rafal Pienkowski

Great article.

You asked:

"Does Refactoring Mean a Rewrite?"

and said:

"One comment I've seen come up on Reddit about this series (quite a bit...) is the accusation that I'm suggesting you ought to rewrite your entire codebase. I've never said that. Nor have I ever implied that you should. Really, you probably shouldn't."

I agree with that. I want to give a link to Greg Young's presentation. Greg said multiple times that during code writing we should thinking about deleting it. I don't wanna to say too much. I recommend it to everyone because Greg shows a whole new perspective :)

Greg Young - The art of destroying software

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James Hickey

Thanks! I'll have to take a look at that sometime. Greg Young usually has very insightful things to say.