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I was literally told to set up this new service as quickly as possible and it didn't need to be correct or best practice because this was just a proof of concept.

Here we are 6 months later and I'm still cleaning up my own mess.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago

The motto I got from working at an ISP was "There is nothing more permanent then a temporary fix."

[-] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago

Similarly, I’ve heard, “nothing more permanent than a 3/4 solution”, i.e. it works well enough that fixing other things always ends up taking priority.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

You should read the Red hat article about decommissioning a data center. Over the period of 20 years there is a crazy amount of works well enough and no one documented it.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Case in point, duct tape and Krazy Glue.

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