Summary
In this chapter, you learned about various challenges with legacy applications and why it is essential to modernize them. You learned about the different benefits an organization can get by upgrading its application to the latest technology. Application modernization can be a complicated and risky task, but is often worth the effort.
The outcome you get from the upgrade is a trade-off against the amount of investment and energy you put into it. Before defining the modernization approach, it's essential to understand your legacy system thoroughly. You learned various assessment attributes of an application in the aspects of technology, architecture, and code.
After the assessment, the next step is to define the modernization approach. You learned about various modernization approaches, including architecture-driven, system re-engineering, and migration approaches. You also learned about multiple techniques of system modernization, including straightforward approaches...
