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I'm not surprised at all. The article focuses on leadership brain drain, but I think it's more basic then that. Really complicated systems are getting built and
by rbc 12y ago
I'm not surprised at all. The article focuses on leadership brain drain, but I think it's more basic then that. Really complicated systems are getting built and deployed every day. After a while, the folks who built the system don't really know how it works anymore, because they are busy building the next thing.
After a little longer, the underlying infrastructure (OS and native libraries), platform (java, node, ruby, etc...) and persistence (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, you get the idea...) starts to become vulnerable to zero-day exploits and you get one of these big breaches. Maybe I'm just being cynical ;)
It's sort of like the old rusty ship that finally sinks. It happens all the time...