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Level UI • 20 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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Aqib Javaid • Oct 16 • in Articles • 5 min read
Rewrite or Refactor a Legacy Application? How to Decide
Every business with an ageing application eventually faces the same question: do we rewrite or refactor the legacy application? Get it wrong and you either burn a year rebuilding something that already worked, or you pour money into patching a system...
  • legacy
  • refactoring
  • architecture
  • php
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Steve Fentonverified • Aug 26 • in Videos • 1 min read
Modernizing Legacy Software
In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly chats to Bob Walker and Steve Fenton about modernizing legacy applications. Many teams and organizations face the decision on whether to modernize software that's been running for years...
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  • continuous-delivery
  • legacy
  • architecture
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oluwatosinolamilekan • Apr 9 • in Articles • 10 min read
Migrating a Legacy Codebase Across 15+ Modules Without Downtime: An Engineering Transformation Story
Legacy code is not a dirty word — it is code that makes money, serves real users, and pays engineering salaries. The problem is not its existence, but that it eventually accumulates enough technical debt to slow the entire business down. I know this...
  • typescript
  • legacy
  • nodejs
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bhaswanth • Feb 12 • in Articles • 3 min read
What legacy codebases taught me about real software engineering.
Almost every developer must've worked on at least one legacy project in their career. And the first reaction is almost always the same. You open the codebase and think, "Who wrote this code?" "Why is this such a mess?" "I can do a lot better than th...
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  • legacy
  • programming
  • development
  • softwarearchitecture
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BrazenBraden • Aug 24, 2025 • in Articles • 8 min read
JuggleBee’s Great Leap – Data Migration, ActiveStorage, and Production Readiness (Part 2)
Now that we had a deployable app, I set up a staging server using my new favourite provider, Hetznerhttps://www.hetzner.com/ not a sponsor, lol, spun it up, and witnessed a “fully functional” skeleton of JuggleBee. Stage 1 of the migration plan was c...
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  • ruby
  • rubyonrails
  • code-refactoring
  • legacy
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istvan-dobrenteiverified • Aug 22, 2025 • in Tutorials • 1 min read
Primum nil nocere in PHP: First, Do No Harm
Doctors have a saying: primum nil nocere — “first, do no harm.” I first heard it in a medical context, but it stuck with me. Could the same principle apply to programming? Absolutely — especially when working with legacy code. If you work on legacy ...
  • php
  • git
  • legacy
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Tom Smithverified • 16 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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BrazenBraden • Aug 21, 2025 • in Articles • 10 min read
JuggleBee’s Great Leap - Rebuilding a Rails 4 App in Rails 8 (Part 1)
JuggleBeehttp://www.jugglebee.com was born in 2015. It was Namibia's first online auction platform and is still one of the biggest today. I built it with Ruby on Rails 4.2 on Ruby 2.2. It sat there, rock-solid and stubbornly stable, only needing the ...
  • ruby
  • rubyonrails
  • code-refactoring
  • legacy
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Payezhi Chegattil Abhishek • Aug 7, 2025 • in Articles • 1 min read
While everyone’s chasing AI and Data Science… COBOL is quietly running the world.
You’ve heard the stat: COBOL powers 95% of ATM transactions — but that’s just scratching the surface. The real story? COBOL is everywhere: → 85% of insurance claims are processed using COBOL → Major airline reservation systems still run on it → U....
  • legacy
  • coding
  • programming
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