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How Squarespace automated modernization at scale to simplify Spring Boot upgrades and more

Squarespace automated Spring Boot and internal framework upgrades across 200+ services with Moderne, cutting migration effort, reducing risk, and giving developers a faster, more reliable path to stay current.

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January 19, 2023

What we know so far about generative AI applications to mass refactoring.

Generative AI is best in single-point suggestive applications. Rule-based systems are best in multi-point authoritative applications. There is a tradeoff between recipe development speed and manual review time.

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AI/ML
January 19, 2023

Auto-remediation of code for continuous software modernization

Learn how to operationalize and automate continuous software modernization for your organization: Weekly code clean-up tasks, security vulnerability remediations, large scale software migrations, and more.

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Code Modernization
Product
January 17, 2023

Lossless Semantic Trees: The key to restoring creativity to software engineering

We are familiar with the shortcomings of text of course. Software maintenance automation starts with a Lossless Semantic Tree.

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OpenRewrite
Developer Skills
January 9, 2023

"Freedom and responsibility" is great for platform engineering.

The best solutions emerge when centrally forced change is anti-cultural. Diffusion of responsibility causes mass communication as a tool to falter.

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Developer Skills
January 8, 2023

"The SDLC is a relay race between systems of record and automation."

Tooling connects this race in perfect alternation. No one company can own the race, nor should they.

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Developer Skills
January 7, 2023

The software industrial revolution is here, but migration is manual?

Industrialized production requires industrialized maintenance. Migration engineering can be automation rather than clerical work. We are too far along the industrialization curve for migration engineering to continue to be manual.

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Code Modernization
July 12, 2022

App modernization is the missing piece of devops

Application modernization goes hand-in-hand with security, performance, and agility. It has also been traditionally laborious. Automated software modernization is the missing piece of devops.

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Code Modernization
March 29, 2022

Moderne achieves SOC 2 Type 1 certification

We wanted to share some exciting news: we’ve successfully completed our SOC 2 Type 1 audit! We prioritized this audit as part of an ongoing commitment to holding ourselves to the highest standards for securing customer code.

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Product
March 21, 2022

What does semantic refactoring look like?

The first time you see automated refactoring that takes advantage of semantic information, it seems like magic.

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Developer Skills
March 18, 2022

The gateway drug to mass, automated refactoring is technical debt

Automating the menial tasks that are often required when addressing technical debt brings value to your users.

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Code Modernization
March 17, 2022

Why is technical debt often de-prioritized in an agile environment?

It can often be hard to quantify the benefit of addressing technical debt until there is some "triggering" event that suddenly makes it important. This can leave organizations scrambling as they react to the current crisis at hand. Automation that uses semantic information can help address technical debt before it becomes a problem

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Code Modernization
March 14, 2022

Observers for AST nodes in OpenRewrite

Inspired by a feature in JavaParser 3.0's first milestone release, we decided to add an event-driven system for observation of changes to AST nodes.

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OpenRewrite
October 12, 2021

What made this change?

Product announcements, new features and best practices for OpenRewrite and Moderne SaaS.

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What made this change?
October 4, 2021

Basic Groovy and Gradle support

Product announcements, new features and best practices for OpenRewrite and Moderne SaaS.

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Code Modernization
September 21, 2021

IntelliJ and Eclipse integration

Product announcements, new features and best practices for OpenRewrite and Moderne SaaS.

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IntelliJ and Eclipse integration
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