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Resize applications

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- [Instructor] Resizing an application is achieved by removing unused and therefore redundant components. The presence of redundant components may be the result of changes in the business requirements over time or due to historical development of speculative functionality. The application should be aligned with current and planned business requirements to identify any assets which do not support business outcomes and remove their code from the application. We can also resize application functions where there's a high level of overlapping functionality with other areas of code and so can be merged. At a technical level, resizing can be achieved in three ways. The first is to review the system architecture to identify and remove redundant assets and therefore any code that's used to manage them. The second way to resize is by consolidating the code base, merging code segments where there's overlapping functionality, and…

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