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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 55 points 4 days ago (2 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.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 25 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

That takes me back

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

How does that have less than a million views? My team and I quote/use/reference it so often.

Yes. Because they'll store everything in MongoDB.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Every time I watch it, I giggle 🤭

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days 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.