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This is a telling example of the innovation budget idea! If you're going to replace a creaky old legacy system, never ever do it with the latest technology. Do
by xorcist 4y ago
This is a telling example of the innovation budget idea!
If you're going to replace a creaky old legacy system, never ever do it with the latest technology. Do it with tried and boring technology.
Otherwise soon enough you will have two problems.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI think part of the problem was they needed to pitch the project to the government to get it funded. Probably easier to sell the idea of the Homer Simpson Model S[1] than what they actually needed. That, and everyone with any sort of deciding power were technology-illiterate bureaucrats who waste no opportunity to try to make us somehow use AI to somehow enhance this system in some fashion, largely so they could announce to the world that their system use AI somehow. [1] https://imgur.com/97lhWVR https://imgur.com/97lhWVR
- hkpack 4y agoI think the problem is not with the latest technology, the problem is with the inappropriate one. Have they chose golang, or (God forbid) Rust, they will most likely be fine. There are choices, which are very dangerous, as they increase complexity dramatically, like micro-services, or "event-driven" architectures, or Kubernetes. Add all three and good luck lifting project off the ground.