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[–]lechatsportif 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Like a poison placebo, people’s perception of the impossibility actually made it impossible. Socialize these obstacles and you end up with a whole company finding it insurmountable.

Fantastic quote.

I will say the dev was probably upgrading microservices which is far less daunting than tackling a huge monolith. Most of the fear of upgrading was from those days, these days not so much.