In this episode of Refactor This, Bob Quillin (Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction) talks about monolithic system architectures and the applications that run on them, namely looking to dispel some myths about working with monoliths, and how modernization options are not a lost cause.

In this episode of Refactor This, we speak with Mark Richards. Mark is a hands-on software architect, author of seven O’Reilly books, including Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, and founder of developertoarchitect.com, a website dedicated to resources and training for developers who are looking to move into architecture. With over three decades of experience in the industry, a majority of those as a software architect, Mark now spends the majority of his time consulting and giving back to the developer community through workshops and trainings.

In this episode of Refactor This, we speak with Lee Faus. Lee is a Global Field CTO at GitLab, who frequently talks about #cloud, #devops, and #devsecops, and presented recently at AWS re:Invent. We talk with Lee about how companies are refactoring to stay competitive, how the cloud is a strategic enabler, and how Nasdaq approaches app modernization.

In this episode of Refactor This, Ashmeet Sidana (Chief Engineer and Founder of Engineering Capital) discusses how the team at Engineering Capital continues to identify big winners when investing in engineering-driven startups, and why he believes so strongly in the power of vFunction for Application Modernization for aging monolithic systems–which has skyrocketed from a nice-to-have to a major priority for global CIOs in the last year.

In this episode of Refactor This, Amir Rapson (CTO and Co-founder of vFunction) describes Zombie Code, also referred to as "dead code", which is code that isn't accessed, monitored, or observed and frequently appears in legacy systems. We discuss how it accumulates, why it's bad from a technical debt and security perspective, and what developers can do about it.

In this episode of Refactor This, we speak with Mike Amundsen. Mike is an internationally known author and speaker consulting with organizations around the world on Microservices, APIs, network architecture, and Web development.

In this episode of Refactor This, we speak with Heather VanCura (Senior Director of Standards, Strategy & Architecture at Oracle). Heather is a well-known globe-trotting Java community leader, international keynote speaker, author, fellow podcaster, and Chair of the Java Community Process (JCP).

In this episode of Refactor This, we speak with Matt Raible (Developer Advocate at Okta). Matt is a well-known Java Champion, conference speaker, author, and video producer who has an energetic and opinionated take when it comes to modernization efforts with web development, security, and authentication.

In this episode of Refactor This, we speak with Tim Berglund (VP of Developer Relations at StarTree). Tim is a JavaOne Rockstar, conference speaker, trainer, and author among much else, having spent many years leading developer relations at companies like DataStax and Confluent.

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk with Simon Ritter (Deputy CTO of Azul Systems). Simon is a Java Champion, frequent conference speaker, and a representative for Azul on the JCP Executive Committee and JSR Expert Groups.

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to Grace Jansen (Developer Advocate at IBM) about software modernization, best practices, tools, and stories. Grace is a Java Champion, conference speaker, TechWomen100 Award winner, and former biologist turned software engineer.

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to Holly Cummins, Ph.D., (Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat) about software modernization, best practices, tools, and stories. Holly is a Java Champion, O’Reilly author, frequent conference speaker, and currently working on the Quarkus runtime.

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to Markus Eisele (Developer Adoption Lead at Red Hat) about software modernization, best practices, tools, and stories. Markus is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, founder of the JavaLand conference, and O’Reilly author.

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to James Ward. James is a Java Champion, co-host of the Happy Programming Path podcast with Bruce Eckel, long-time technology advocate at companies like Adobe, Salesforce, and Lightbend, and nowadays Kotlin Product Manager at Google.

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to Bruno Borges. Bruno is a well-known Java Champion, frequent conference speaker, an outspoken thought leader on YAML configuration, and Principal Product Manager at Microsoft.