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> There is another problem that wasn't covered in the article. The 10+ years of stability leads to behaviors and outcomes that remind me of the long-lived SSL c
by sidpatil 3y ago
> There is another problem that wasn't covered in the article. The 10+ years of stability leads to behaviors and outcomes that remind me of the long-lived SSL certificate problem. Updating is done so infrequently that the "how?" is forgotten. As the 10 year support limit approaches, most of the old team members who did it last time are gone, tech debt is through the roof, few people know where everything is or how to build it, and so on.
This is known as the out-of-the-loop performance problem. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-the-loop_performance_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-the-loop_performance_pr...