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Any chances we could read more about this somewhere? Sounds very interesting.

• Chaebixi 9y ago
  > Any chances we could read more about this somewhere? Sounds very interesting. Very, very unlikely. The company doesn't even have technical writers anymore for internal projects, let alone technical historians. And with the time it's taken and normal staff turnover, I doubt that there's anyone who really could write about the whole effort based on their own experiences. Basically, it consisted of building of building a new central datastore for our content (that was pretty mature by 2005, when I started). Then hundreds of smaller projects to migrate this or that process to read from or update the new datastore or keep it in-sync with the old one. There was also a lot of opportunistic piggybacking of new feature work onto migration projects or migration work into new feature work. However, I only have the view of a regular developer.