Refactoring vs. Rebuilding: Choosing the Right Path for Legacy Applications
Sooner or later, most teams working on long-standing products hit the same wall: "Do we try to clean up what we have, or just rebuild it from the ground up?". Even well-designed apps eventually start to feel heavy. Things slow down, libraries get out of date, parts of the code turn into black boxes no one wants to deal with. It’s not necessarily anyone’s fault — just the result of growth, deadlines, and years of quick fixes.