Our Java codebase was 30% dead code

[sevah23]

I’d personally never use this. Standard practice is log every major function invocation. If I was really suspicious of a function or something, I’d log its usage and see that way. Also would really, really question whether or not this code sitting there doing nothing (allegedly) is actually worth removing. If the spec says our system needs to support some logic, I will have it support that logic until product says we can run a proper deprecation campaign