10 Future-Proofing
The best way to complete a modernization project is by ensuring that you won’t have to go through the whole process again in a few years. Future-proofing isn’t about preventing mistakes; it’s about knowing how to maintain and evolve technology gradually.
Two types of problems will cause us to rethink a working system as it ages. The first are usage changes. The second are deteriorations. Scaling challenges are the change in usage type: we have more traffic or a different type of traffic from what we had before. Maybe more people are using the system than were before, or we’ve added a bunch of features that over time have changed the purpose for which people are using the technology.
Usage changes do not have a constant ...
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