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yeah, if anything it's dangerous to assume that your code will get thrown away soon-ish. as an extreme example I'm aware of, the core AWS infrastructure is sti
by mjr00 2y ago
yeah, if anything it's dangerous to assume that your code will get thrown away soon-ish.
as an extreme example I'm aware of, the core AWS infrastructure is still heavily dependent on Perl scripts mashed together 15+ years ago.
- derefr 2y ago> core AWS infrastructure is still heavily dependent on Perl scripts mashed together 15+ years ago What part of the infrastructure? The control-plane logic that triggers when the dashboard/CLI/CloudFormation request modifications to resources?
- mjr00 2y agoI never worked with it directly so this may not be totally accurate, but IIRC a lot of the fundamental networking code for managing data centers -- DNS, traffic routing, etc -- was legacy Perl scripts. While I was there, at least one major us-east-1 outage was directly linked to a problem with one of these scripts.