Yes, you should go talk to compliance.
But for a lot less effort, you could ignore it and talk to no one.
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Prioritization is about profit is true whether we’re talking about airports, theme parks, or background worker processes.
The manager manager was convinced that fixing all of the bugs would lead to perfect, 100% successful execution. The devops team lead spent an hour trying to explain why the software couldn’t achieve better reliability than AWS (the system spread across AWS zones, but each instance was contained within a single zone).
I’m the author of the post and co-host of the never rewrite podcast. Last episode we discussed Khan Academy’s 3.5 year rewrite.
https://youtu.be/LqAkIkNs1Ws?si=d3y6J2C6Q3T8qTyF
Jeffrey dot Sherman at gmail
Would truly love to hear about your experience
Lots of comments about the piece being a short opinion piece without evidence. Totally fair!
If you’d like to learn more I have a podcast, https://www.neverrewrite.com/
Our latest episode is about Khan Academy’s 3.5 year migration from Python to Go.