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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501204

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[–] 55 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I've been party to dumping legacy systems and lift & shifts a few times.

Good fucking luck.

Knowing nothign about this, a project like this would take at least 2 years even if you are dropping a ton of use cases and dependencies.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I wonder if it will be web scale

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Agreed (context: same legacy system work, 20 years), although given the size and scale of the tech debt involved, I'd peg it at 5 years if you had a team of 100+ COBOL developers.

    10 to do it right.

    Once you start dealing with databases older than SQL and languages older than C, things get funky real fast.

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