The boy scouting rule encourages folks to leave a campsite a little better than you found it, through small clean ups. When applied to code, developers similarly apply small localized improvements as they work on a feature. But what if there’s an overwhelming amount of technical debt to clean up, and small changes only mean you’re falling further behind?

In this talk we’ll look at automation to really make a dent in your tech debt backlog, through safe code transformations based on OpenRewrite. Next we’ll scale up these automated fixes through the Moderne Platform, and show how you can stop issues from creeping back in. Finally we’ll show how you can compose and define your own rules to extend the open source framework that is OpenRewrite.