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The Stress Equation
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The Stress Equation

by Marcus Lagre
August 2024
Beginner to intermediate
128 pages
3h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Increase of Pressure

The product and services had been continuously developed for more than two decades, and the legacy systems were becoming an increasing cause of problems. Over the years, developers had come and gone, with consultants coming in periodically to solve specific issues, which they did but not always with consideration to the overall tech fauna or high load resilience. Before our development manager joined, a year or two before I did, I was not entirely sure who was in command of the software parts. From the looks of it, no one.

The entire product was a patchwork of software systems—scripts, desktop applications, REST APIs, cron jobs, FTPs, web interfaces, a huge monolith of a Silverlight monster. You name it, we had it!

It was ...

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