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This is very close to my experience as well. Unfortunately, it was in reverse for me :( We had a custom solution and people were happy. A new tech lead came i
by sodapopcan 3y ago
This is very close to my experience as well. Unfortunately, it was in reverse for me :( We had a custom solution and people were happy. A new tech lead came in and didn't like that the custom solution was PHP that still had some legacy spaghetti in it, so we switched to an off the shelf solution. It was very painful. People were unhappy.
- pmarreck 3y ago> that still had some legacy spaghetti in it I'm going to take a wild ass guess here that you are wildly understating the "bit of legacy spaghetti"
- sodapopcan 3y agoYour wild guess is flat out wrong. When the previous tech lead came in the entire thing was spaghetti. His strategy was to slowly start bringing in some order to the chaos which we did, diligently, over two years making tons of progress. It was a homebrewed framework but it was really nice (he'd had years of experience contributing to Drupal). All the business critical functionality had been converted to this. The spaghetti parts were features that were essentially "complete". Since they never needed updating, they worked fine as they were.
- pmarreck 3y agoDrupal is the one piece of technology that I did 1 project in and would never work with again no matter what the pay was.
- sodapopcan 3y agoI wouldn’t know I’ve never used it.