# legacy application

A legacy application is an outdated or obsolete software program that may still be in use and require maintenance or modernization.

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## I spent two months screen-sharing to ship one integration. So I rebuilt it on Temporal.

DevFeed: [I spent two months screen-sharing to ship one integration. So I rebuilt it on Temporal.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-spent-two-months-screen-sharing-to-ship-one-integration-so-i-rebuilt-it-on-temporal-35876.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/i-spent-two-months-screen-sharing-to-ship-one-integration-so-i-rebuilt-it-on-temporal>)

Author: Stephen Montague

Published: 2026-08-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proxy.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [legacy application](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy-application.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>), [on-prem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/on-prem.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retry.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [legacy-application](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy-application.md>), [messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messaging.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [on-prem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-prem.md>), [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxy.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retry.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains how to connect a cloud application to a firewalled on-premises edge site using an egress-only proxy and a single outbound Temporal connection. It describes the operational difficulties of a legacy, one-way integration and the need for bidirectional messaging, retry handling, and testing.

### Source excerpt

How to durably reach a firewalled edge site with no inbound ports: an egress-only proxy that hot-reloads config over a single outbound Temporal connection.

## The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy

DevFeed: [The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-pulse-bending-spoons-acquisition-strategy-40922.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-bending-spoons-acquisition-strategy/>)

Author: Gergely Orosz

Published: 2026-08-05T11:45:13Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-pragmatic-engineer-2.md>)

Topics: [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [virtual machines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virtual-machines.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-cloud.md>), [legacy application](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy-application.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [virtual-machines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-machines.md>)

### AI overview

The article examines Bending Spoons' acquisition strategy, including its announced $1.285 billion cash purchase of Airtable and its approach to operating struggling products with smaller teams. It also describes the company's reported modernization of Evernote from a Java 11 monolith running across 750 manually provisioned virtual machines on Google Cloud to a managed-database and microservices architecture in about six months, with reported improvements in performance, reliability, operating cost, and on-call load.

### Source excerpt

In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons' startup acquisition model.