Long-Term Software Maintenance: Refactoring, Compatibility, and Lifecycle Planning
Every software team celebrates the launch. Almost none are prepared for what comes after.
This book addresses the discipline that defines the careers of senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders: the rigorous craft of keeping production systems healthy, adaptable, and trustworthy over years of relentless change.
Organized into six comprehensive parts, this guide moves from the foundational economics of maintainability to advanced strategies for zero-downtime system migrations. You will learn to measure and arrest architectural decay before it calcifies, navigate unfamiliar legacy codebases with confidence, and execute large-scale refactoring safely without disrupting live production traffic.
Inside, you will find:
A concrete, measurable framework for maintainability built on readability, modularity, testability, and evolvability
Proven refactoring patterns for monoliths, distributed systems, and complex data models
Strategies for designing stable APIs, enforcing semantic versioning, and managing long-lived dependencies
Architecture Decision Records, fitness functions, and automated governance pipelines that prevent structural drift
Lifecycle planning frameworks, feature flag strategies, and organizational models for sustainable engineering
Advanced migration playbooks, including the Strangler Fig pattern for replacing legacy foundations while live traffic flows
This is not a book about writing clean code. It is a rigorous engineering guide for professionals who understand that the true cost of software is paid not at launch, but in every pull request, hotfix, and 3 AM incident that follows.
Whether you are inheriting a decade-old billing pipeline or leading a multi-year modernization program, this book equips you with the tools to build systems that survive.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Long-Term Software Maintenance: Refactoring, Compatibility, and Lifecycle PlanningEvery software team celebrates the launch. Almost none are prepared for what comes after.This book addresses the discipline that defines the careers of senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders: the rigorous craft of keeping production systems healthy, adaptable, and trustworthy over years of relentless change.Organized into six comprehensive parts, this guide moves from the foundational economics of maintainability to advanced strategies for zero-downtime system migrations. You will learn to measure and arrest architectural decay before it calcifies, navigate unfamiliar legacy codebases with confidence, and execute large-scale refactoring safely without disrupting live production traffic.Inside, you will find: A concrete, measurable framework for maintainability built on readability, modularity, testability, and evolvabilityProven refactoring patterns for monoliths, distributed systems, and complex data modelsStrategies for designing stable APIs, enforcing semantic versioning, and managing long-lived dependenciesArchitecture Decision Records, fitness functions, and automated governance pipelines that prevent structural driftLifecycle planning frameworks, feature flag strategies, and organizational models for sustainable engineeringAdvanced migration playbooks, including the Strangler Fig pattern for replacing legacy foundations while live traffic flowsThis is not a book about writing clean code. It is a rigorous engineering guide for professionals who understand that the true cost of software is paid not at launch, but in every pull request, hotfix, and 3 AM incident that follows.Whether you are inheriting a decade-old billing pipeline or leading a multi-year modernization program, this book equips you with the tools to build systems that survive. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798258005878
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