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I agree there probably are areas were they can simplify with no impact to operations. But I would imagine there are a lot of pieces of apparent cruft hanging a

I agree there probably are areas were they can simplify with no impact to operations. But I would imagine there are a lot of pieces of apparent cruft hanging around that is actually there because if you remove it things break. Maybe a large retailer that you rely on requires an integration with an old version of SAP, and then a logistics partner only provides files over FTP, and you need to use OCR to retrieve any data from the files they're sending. Management can't just mandate that you will 'simplify the tech stack'. Even refactoring smaller parts of the tech stack is often a pretty massive job.

rexpop 2y ago
"Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating."[0] > Management can't just mandate that you will 'simplify the tech stack'. In my experience, it's the devs who want to do reactors for love of the craft and satisfaction of a job "well" done, while management seeks to sweep as much technical "debt" as possible under the rug, and they'll burn through as many Romanians' nights' sleeps as it takes to reach their numbers. 0. https://m.xkcd.com/1172/ https://m.xkcd.com/1172/