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Alien Artefacts

The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts 1 , a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The…
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Apr 16, 2023Alien Artefacts by varjag12942

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