Judith van Stegeren - Practical code archaeology

PyData Eindhoven 2022

Code archaeology is figuring out what a thing is for, who built it, and how you can get it to run again.
Dealing with legacy code artefacts (while under time pressure) is something we data people encounter a lot in daily life. I will tell about my experiences from both a research and software engineering standpoint. After quickly going over some common sense approaches, I will dive deeper into real-world archaeology and digital forensics, and find out what we can learn from these fields to make dealing with old artefacts a bit easier. Expect a mix of code and non-code hacks, with ample pop culture archaeology memes.

Contents:
- Code archaeology: why do we do it, and do we need to bring a hat?
- The basics: common sense approaches to code archaeology
- What can we learn from real-world archaeologists?
- What can we learn from digital forensics?

[GeorgeZoto]

Very helpful session, I enjoyed the QA at the end as well 😀

[lmsg]

it was very helpful, and Judith is a good communicator