And that is exactly where it belongs. Share the oldest production code you’ve ever had to debug in the comments. 👇
It’s a beautiful theory. In practice, it often fails. legacy core
Why? Because the Legacy Core fights back. Every time you try to strangle a legacy function, you discover that function is coupled to a payroll system, which is coupled to a tax module, which requires a nightly batch job written in Perl. And that is exactly where it belongs
We call it the .
Finance loves the legacy core because it is predictable. Operations loves it because they know the failure modes. Product hates it because they can’t ship. legacy core