So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration

It seems like there’s always a hot new library or framework promising great things. But people often forget about the pain and effort required to move from an old technology to a new one. How long will it take? If you finish, will it be worth it? And if you don’t, could it leave you in a worse place than where you started?

Drawing from my experience of the Typescript migration we recently completed at Monzo I’ll take you through some of the different outcomes of technical migrations and the things we learned along the way, and leave you with a toolkit to tackle your next migration project.


Speaker

Sophie Koonin

Web Engineering Lead @Monzo, Writer, Speaker and Web 1.0 Enthusiast

Sophie is the web engineering lead at Monzo Bank, responsible for the web platform across the organisation and working on internal tooling that powers Monzo’s award-winning customer service. Building websites since the age of 10, she’s passionate about creating inclusive, accessible and fun websites that people love. Sophie writes about tech & mental health at localghost.dev, builds intentionally useless web apps, and co-runs a pop choir in London. 

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Date

Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Topics

migration organizational politics stakeholder management JavaScript

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