Using AI and OpenRewrite to Automate Java Service Upgrades at Scale
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Guadalupe Aliseda-Canton
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Summary
The article describes how an engineering team used AI-powered automation to scale Java service upgrades across their codebase. After initially manually upgrading services to modern Java stack versions (JDK, Spring Boot, Gradle), they combined OpenRewrite (an automated refactoring tool) with AI to create a systematic workflow. This AI-powered approach allowed them to efficiently upgrade all repositories to follow a standardized "Golden Path" or "paved road" for JVM services, significantly accelerating what would otherwise be a manual, time-consuming process.
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This led us to systematize the process and create an AI-powered workflow to upgrade all of our repos.
At a high level, the goal of this project is to get all JVM services to follow a 'golden path,' also referred to by other companies as a 'paved road.'
We use the term Golden Path and define it as a...
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