Backstory We recently repackaged our .NET Framework applications into Docker. If you want to skip to the meat and potatoes scroll onward from this section to the “I Want to Upgrade My .NET Application” heading. In my last post I alluded to tackling unsexy problems with tech debt. The benefits of these unsexy projects are a freeing up of “dead weight” that drags down your team’s ability to deliver more swiftly and reliably....
Everybody wants to go fast. Developers want to go fast and see their code deployed. The business wants to go fast (assuming the pipelines and process are in-place to mitigate risk). But there’s always this pesky little thing that gets in the way. Old code and old systems, you know those ones that are super hard to update and/or super hard to deploy. I think everyone, even the business knows “tech debt is bad”....