DHH: Celebrating Legacy Software as a Victory and the Story of How Humans Can't Estimate

Robby speaks with DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of Basecamp/HEY. They discuss how legacy software should be seen as a victory and celebrated, some of Basecamp's engineering teams processes between new features/updates and handling maintenance-type work, the benefits of new versions of your SaaS products, how humans are horrible at estimating, and why Ruby on Rails has not needed a rewrite, yet.

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Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone. On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development. Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.