
Evolutionary Architecture: Safely Refactoring Production Systems Without Big Bang Rewrites
The Case Against the Big Rewrite Let me paint a picture you’ve probably seen before: it’s 2 AM on a Tuesday, your production system is down, and somewhere in a Slack channel, someone’s typing “…should we just rewrite it all?” This is the moment where many engineering teams make a choice that haunts them for years. The big bang rewrite. It sounds appealing—clean slate, new tech stack, lessons learned applied from day one....
