# Project Necromancy

DevFeed: [Project Necromancy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/project-necromancy-2115.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//project-necromancy>)

Published: 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [project-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project-management.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes reviving a project that had been canceled and left dormant after a new microservice was added to its backend architecture. The team preserved the partially finished feature code in a git branch, and changing product priorities later made parts of the functionality important again.

## Source excerpt

Or, how to raise a project from the dead with tools you probably have lying around at home.