Alexandervon Zitzewitz
Alexander von Zitzewitz is founder, managing director of the company and CEO of the US subsidiary. He has more than 20 years of project and management experience. In 1993 he founded ootec - a company focused on project services around object oriented software technology. This company was sold to the French Valtech group in March 2000 and served customers like Siemens, BMW, Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl and other well known names in German industry. From 2003 to early 2005 he was working as Director of Central Europe for the French company Xcalia S.A. Since the summer of 2008 he is living in Massachusetts. His areas of expertise are object oriented system design and large scale system architecture. Alexander has a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
Many organizations have the urgent need to modernize applications that have grown over the years and are not in very good architectural shape anymore. Often those monoliths resemble more the dreaded big ball of mud than a well organized software system. Modernization might mean migration to micro services or to a cleaner architecture based on Domain Driven Design. But before you can start with the big modernization you should analyze what you have. That allows you to estimate if building from scratch might be cheaper after all.
Many organizations have the urgent need to modernize applications that have grown over the years and are not in very good architectural shape anymore. Often those monoliths resemble more the dreaded big ball of mud than a well organized software system. Modernization might mean migration to micro services or to a cleaner architecture based on Domain Driven Design. But before you can start with the big modernization you should analyze what you have. That allows you to estimate if building from scratch might be cheaper after all.
Software metrics can be used effectively to judge the maintainability and architectural quality of a code base. Even more importantly, they can be used as canaries in a coal mine to warn early about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt.
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