# Incremental Maintenance

DevFeed: [Incremental Maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/incremental-maintenance-30611.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ryanharter.com/blog/2026/05/incremental-maintenance/>)

Published: 2026-05-14T01:53:09Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Blogs on Ryan Harter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blogs-on-ryan-harter.md>)

Topics: [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintenance.md>), [Dependency injection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dependency-injection.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/implementation.md>), [screen](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/screen.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [core](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [dependency-injection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency-injection.md>), [incremental](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incremental.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintenance.md>), [patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patterns.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [screen](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/screen.md>)

## AI overview

An opinion article about incremental maintenance in a large, aging application. It argues that small refactoring choices can reduce entrenched patterns, using dependency injection to keep feature-gating details out of a monolithic tab-host screen.

## Source excerpt

I recently reviewed some code at work that made me pause. The change affected a part of the codebase that we affectionately call "The Monolith", which is some of the oldest code in our 16 year old app. While there are reasonable arguments that it's hard to tease apart this older hairball of code, there are often small choices that can either move you closer to the decoupled promised land, or further entrench you in bad patterns.