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Do they ever rebuild things? Or just add features ontop of features till the whole thing creaks.

• mrbombastic 2y ago
  generally they wait until something explodes or they cannot add any features to the unmaintainable mess and they have no choice :)
  • giantg2 2y ago
    Yep, this is what my experience is. It could be a cost explosion too, like using expensive mainframes and migrating to something else before the MIPS cost explodes.
    • Muromec 2y ago
      Did somebody successfully migrated from a mainframe? Asking for a friend.
      • giantg2 2y ago
        Yes, I've heard of some systems successfully migrating from the mainframe at my company. It tends to be a painful process. There are still some apps that need to be migrated.
• dopylitty 2y ago
  Several years after a project completes when the system is finally sort of working and the end users know what to expect new management will come in at a high enough level and demand everything be rebuilt using their tech stack of choice because they need the resume entries. Then of course you'll get a buggy second system that is back at square 0 which the business doesn't understand/hates and the developers hate because they're constantly fighting fires.