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0 pointsJKCalhoun4y ago0 comments

Why does it seem (I'm not a backend engineer) that a company moves off of one technical-debt ridden backend to another, even bigger, more complex framework for their backend.

It's like we're in a downward tech-debt spiral.

Is it going to take an Ever-Given-like or Covid-like disruption of e-commerce that shuts down society to cause us to wake up and take this seriously? (Or have government step in and set standards and requirements for e-commerce.)

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nicoburns4y ago

Presumably because they didn't fix the organisational issues that caused the first codebase to become a mess. If they had those sorted then they could most likely have stuck with the original codebase AND a rewrite would likely be succesful.

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