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Don't think this is atypical of many organisations that have grown their IT over a long period. When I did some work for Network Rail (here in the UK) there wer
by tragomaskhalos 3y ago
Don't think this is atypical of many organisations that have grown their IT over a long period. When I did some work for Network Rail (here in the UK) there were some absolutely hair-raising diagrams of umpteen systems all with lines between them, doubtless many going back to BR days.
- xmcqdpt2 3y agoThis makes me excited for what current microservices architecture systems will look like in fifty years!
- Nextgrid 3y agoMicroservices just means you get that kind of mess in months instead of years/decades, and that mess is actually the objective.
- tragomaskhalos 3y agoTrue, but at least those lines (you'd hope) will represent some json going over http, whereas with these legacy systems the lines could be more or less anything!
- mxschumacher 3y agomaintaining web frontends will also be an infinite source of employment