Modernize Software and Tackle Tech Debt at Big Bank Scale
summary
Morgan Stanley runs a yearlong program that maps 57,976 repos, vets vendors for enterprise controls, runs a paid POC and early access with ~1,000 users, and uses OpenRewrite recipes plus Moderne to automate large-scale refactors. The claim is tens of thousands of development hours recovered on a single migration; examples include Spring upgrades with 1,100 hours of recovered capacity and a 49‑recipe marketplace. CI pipelines publish curated recipes, app teams own PRs, security signs off, GA is imminent, and measurement focuses on merged-change capacity rather than raw activity.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:56The technical debt problem
- 9:00Drivers for change
- 13:14The modernisation journey
- 17:59Tooling landscape analysis
- 21:21Implementing the platform
- 24:05Building developer community
- 28:58Measuring success and ROI
- 34:17Future goals and expansion
- 37:18Key takeaways
- 44:12Questions and answers
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