Software Reengineering: Breathing New Life into Legacy Code

In today’s fast-changing digital economy, usage of outdated software can put your business at risk. Unstable performance, recurring issues, fragile codebase, slow delivery cycles, poor compatibility with modern third-party platforms, and many other pitfalls of obsolete systems will inevitably affect your operations, cut profit, and limit growth. If you want to keep pace and stay competitive, hesitate no more to implement software reengineering. What is it? What are the potential benefits for your business? And what should you expect from the process? The article below will help you make things straight.

Briefly About Software Reengineering

Andrew Lychuk, Corsac Technologies CTO, mentioned that software reengineering is a comprehensive process that includes various modernization steps. They can be applied all together or separately, depending on your needs, problems, and goals. Here is a short list of the core software reengineering components:

1. Code refactoring  — usually, obsolete systems are backed by brittle and messy code, with unnecessary duplicates and gaps. It’s especially hard to maintain because of unexpected errors, hidden dependencies, and inability to make changes or add new features without risks. By code refactoring, we replace all the inconsistencies, enhance readability, uplevel libraries, so your development team can operate more confidently and faster. It’s a perfect choice to uplevel your software without needing to rewrite entire system logic.

2. Re-architecting — is applied when core changes are necessary to ensure seamless scaling and integration. We decompose rigid monoliths into light-weight, easy to manage microservices. Such modular architecture enables incremental modernization with a high level of security and performance.

You can deploy changes in each module independently, test how it works in the new environment, while preserving operations in the old environment almost uninterrupted. With upgraded architecture, you can ensure a smooth customer experience across all platforms without need to duplicate functionality. Among other important re-architecting benefits are perfect compatibility with external platforms, cloud-readiness, ability to implement AI/ML, СI/СD pipelines, automation etc. Moreover, renewed modular architecture significantly cuts maintenance cost, as you can finally break free from vendor lock-in and expensive licenses.

3. Migration — besides the inner system specifics, external ones are no less important. It means that the environment where your system operates can impact overall effectiveness significantly. We enable end-to-end cloud migration that includes transition of all system parts: architecture, UI/UX, databases, infrastructure, etc. Before kick off, we investigate your old system thoroughly. “Root-cause analysis is the best way to get ready for migration as it helps identify hidden tech debt and potential risk, as well as outline growth opportunities”, — mentioned Ihor Omelianchuk, the Co-founder of Corsac Technologies.

What Are the Benefits for Your Business?

1. Accelerated time-to-market
2. Ability to scale and innovate without tech barriers
3. Increased team effectiveness, as they don’t need to focus on constant fixing and firefighting anymore
4. Improved overall performance and higher level of customer satisfaction
5. Better security, faster threat detection and minimized vulnerability
6. Perfect integration with modern third-party platforms
7. Ability to leverage AI and automation

To sum up, software reengineering is an all-encompassing process that can bring numerous benefits but only if conducted by responsible, top-notch experts. If you’re looking for a trusted team to conduct your modernization shift, reach out to Corsac Technologies and book a free 30-min consultation. We’ll discuss your project specifics, business needs and goals to build a realistic reengineering roadmap within your time and budget. And, sure thing, we’ll become the ones to implement it, combining our deep expertise and the latest technologies.