Your boss wants you to revive an old application. The original developer left the company, and the programming language used is five years past the end of life. However, the application continues to have strong business value. You’ve heard that the application has clear-text passwords in the code (apparently the developer was in a hurry to change roles and didn't anticipate the application’s success), and it was deployed manually to production – nobody remembers how…
It's time for you to modernize the app with the latest technologies and make the application 12-factor compliant, but you don't want to learn an old and unsupported language. What can you do? Let’s find out!