Refactor This With James Ward: If You Modernize, Complexity Becomes Manageable

In this episode of Refactor This, we talk to James Ward. James is a Java Champion, co-host of the Happy Programming Path podcast with Bruce Eckel, long-time technology advocate at companies like Adobe, Salesforce, and Lightbend, and nowadays Kotlin Product Manager at Google.

In this episode, we discuss:

Can “move fast and break things” work in a large enterprise when people’s jobs are at stake? (3:35)
Why your build pipeline is one of the first places to start when it comes to modernization (9:27)
Developer happiness, productivity, Testcontainers, CI/CD and more (14:55)
Why functional programming with languages like Scala and Kotlin has made James a better programmer and advocate (18:34)
Technical debt issues, and how to think about it (27:48)