{"id":741,"date":"2011-02-12T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/741-startup-suicide.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:08:25","slug":"startup-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/startup-suicide","title":{"rendered":"Startup Suicide ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter recently sent me a link to an interesting piece about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aonetwork.com\/AOStory\/Startup-Suicide-%E2%80%93-Rewriting-Code\">Startup Suicide &#8211; Rewriting the Code<\/a>&#8221; on AlwaysOn about the &#8220;re-architect and re-write&#8221; solution usually being the beginning of the end for a company in a rapidly changing market. This is interesting to me as we ramp up for doing exactly that yet no decisions have been made.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a perfectly confronting article. There&#8217;s a lot of truth in it if done the way it is described there: some sort of a big-bang upgrade. I like the phychological aspects of the article, the &#8216;condemned code&#8217; part. Very recognizable, very Scary too.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer the modularization of the code model instead, and then optimize \/ replace those parts. This gives a gradual upgrade model instead of a big-bang upgrade as the article mentions. Like what I&#8217;m doing now with the Zend JobQueue migration to the Gearman JobQueue. Replace piece by piece. This however is an easy move compared to replacing an entire PHP framework.<\/p>\n<p>For the modular change model to work one needs an easy and automated way to deploy code changes often. I&#8217;ve implemented a Continuous Deployment system using BuildBot with which we now have unattended and automated site updates available, most even without downtime. We&#8217;re using that for some time now with multiple deployments per day.<\/p>\n<p>If we ever replace our ATK framework for something else we&#8217;ll do it piece by piece. I hope that&#8217;ll scare off the &#8220;Startup Suicide &#8211; Rewriting the Code&#8221; demon \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hans Lambermont<\/strong>, Senior Architect \/ Developer at Shapeways, Makerbot enthusiast, Astrophotographer, Open Source fan and Juggler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter recently sent me a link to an interesting piece about &#8220;Startup Suicide &#8211; Rewriting the Code&#8221; on AlwaysOn about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[486,477],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shapeways","tag-10-software","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Startup Suicide ? 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