I briefly worked for a medium sized web company (millions of registered users, 100's of employees, pretty large infrastructure.) It was hosted on AWS. I would r

I briefly worked for a medium sized web company (millions of registered users, 100's of employees, pretty large infrastructure.) It was hosted on AWS. I would regularly SSH into production instances that had 1000 days uptime, no patches, OS releases that from 5+ years ago, etc. Oh yeah, they were still running Python 2 for parts of the main application. It was literally like traveling back a decade. I found dependencies that hadn't been updated in 10 years.