You've heard of Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck..." catch phrase right? Well, Jeffrey Palermo has started his own: "you might have a legacy enterprise application...."
You can't figure out which copy of the source code is the one deployed to production. You find more than one source code repositories with the old shipping application. Which one is the real one? Every developer who worked on the project has left the company.You modify the code and another system goes down. Enterprise applications are notorious for being very interdependent. You had no idea that this old application was making a file drop to another server in the Idaho office, and now I/T in Idaho is screaming that their product prices are 10 days old!User workarounds for bugs in the application are published in a "user manual" Whatever you do, don't submit more than one request at a time! The server will lock up and have to be rebooted.There is a pager dedicated to support for the application. Enough said.
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~tod
tags: software+development
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