Will Your Code Run in 5 Years?

Erich Izdepski
Nov 7 · 9 min read

You write code. You save it online or on a hard drive. What if the company hosting your online repository goes out of business and fails to have good continuity of operations? Is devastatingly hacked (do you know their back up procedures on GitXXX)? Or your own hard drive crashes, gets stolen, or eaten by a dog? Do you know which upcoming updates will break your current code that is using deprecated methods? What if your lead engineer…

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Erich Izdepski

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Software engineer and architect who’s built web, mobile and desktop apps in multiple industries over a span of more than 22 years. CTO @ BTS Software Solutions.

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