🔧 Legacy code: rewrite or refactor?
Key factors:
- Security risks?
- Framework support?
- Team understanding of features/usage?
- Risk tolerance?
- Team's ability to maintain existing vs new system?
Pro tip: There is no magic answer. It's always situational.
We've seen incremental refactors that unlocked business value and speed super quick, and also glacially slow refactors.
We've seen big bang rewrites turn into snail's-pace, expensive disasters, and also super successful iterations.
