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Death by Technical Debt (piefed.social)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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Currently working at a small manufacturing business that is drowning in the "we've always done it this way..." mentality and I just hope I can get out of here before it bites them in the ass.

Anyone got experiences with technical debt or outdated IT practices snowballing into a complete disaster? Surely companies can't limp along indefinitely... right?

Update: lmao since I made this post, I've found out about A LOT OF SUS SHIT beyond our IT practices. Would love to spill the tea but there is no series of vagueries I can say beyond "the fact that we hired a pedo is the last of our worries" without doxxing myself :|

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago

A power company whose name I cannot share insisted on having 5 access and control rooms per power plant (most usually have 2-3 per plant) for redundancy. It drove them to near bankruptcy in the 2010s because of their tech debt trying to keep them all in sync world wide.

Ugh. Utilities are where innovation goes to die.

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