@GergelyOrosz: If you've been in tech for some time, this should be obvious: Every single "success story" about a rewrite/migration et…
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A tech commentator notes that success stories about rewrites and migrations published by companies are half-truths, omitting negatives and internal incentives, and warns that copying them without understanding context leads to disappointment.
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If you’ve been in tech for some time, this should be obvious:
Every single “success story” about a rewrite/migration etc published on a company page is half-truth.
The positives will all be true!
But those posts will not share all or some key negatives (even ones people observed) “real” alternatives considered… and even if they did, they would not contain:
The Incentives + Dynamics
The internal, often unsaid incentives that help with faster career advancemement, the internal dynamics that are unique to a set of companies.
And without understanding all of these, if you copy this “success story” inside your team/company with different incentives and dynamics, you’ll be disappointed.
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