Alina Liburkina &
Oliver Zihler
12 - 13 March 2025 | Alte Kaserne Winterthur
Alina Liburkina
Codeartify GmbH, CEO, Technical Trainer, IT Event Organizer
Alina Liburkina is a CEO of Codeartify GmbH. She is a technical trainer, software engineer and architect, and (IT) event organizer passionate about DDD, Refactorings, Hexagonal and Clean Architecture. She is a co-organizer of an international conference and meetups TechExcellence. Moreover, she promotes and introduces XP techniques in the teams she works with. She loves to gather and share her knowledge with others through pair or mob programming, presentations or hands-on workshops.
Oliver Zihler
Technical Trainer @ Codeartify
Oliver Zihler is a dedicated Software Crafter specialising in Business-Domain-Driven Software Design, identifying and addressing Code Smells through Refactoring, architecting maintainable software solutions, and agile software development. He actively organises Tech Excellence meetups and conferences, fostering community learning and innovation. At Codeartify, Oliver serves as a trainer, software engineer, and architect, guiding teams to deliver robust solutions. Outside of coding, he balances work and life through his passion for sports and guitar, bringing creativity and energy into every endeavour.
Workshop
Untangle Your Legacy Code with Domain-Driven Refactoring
Room “Gesang” / 2nd floor
Abstract:
Discover how Domain-Driven Refactoring can help you transform messy, tightly coupled systems into clean, maintainable architectures.
In legacy systems, wrong abstractions and outdated, database-heavy designs can cause high complexity, a problem reinforced when there are no tests in place. Every change feels risky. Our session will walk you through the process of untangling legacy code using appropriate testing strategies to capture the current behavior and ensure safety as you refactor incrementally.
Once tests are in place, we’ll explore how to clean up the internal mess. Learn step-by-step refactoring techniques towards an expressive domain model. We'll show you how to separate code into its concerns and combine data and logic effectively into cohesive parts. By incorporating business language and identifying domain objects and their boundaries, you’ll start building a true domain model.
We’ll introduce effective automated and manual refactoring techniques to methodically restructure code while keeping everything operational. Finally, we will show techniques that can guide you toward a more flexible architecture, like Vertical Slice and Hexagonal Architecture, where each feature slice is more testable, maintainable, and easy to evolve.
Prerequisites for this workshop:
No prerequisites needed.
TBD
Number of partparticipants:
The maximum number of participants at this workshop is 40.