EPISODE · Oct 4, 2023 · 49 MIN
Are Second Systems Inevitable
from Picture Me Coding · host Erik Aker and Mike Mull
Mike and Erik talk about second systems and weigh whether we can ever even avoid the things in the first place. Acronyms loom large in this conversation, both IRS and AWS come up. Here are some links to things that we talked about in the show:Joel (not Jeff!) Spolsky post: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/IRS IMF: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/10/irs-details-strategy-for-replacing-its-most-ancient-computer-code/AWS Oracle Migration: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/Dropbox “Sync” rewrite: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engineTwitter off of rails: https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/11/twitter-ruby-to-java/Discord from Go to Rust: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rustMozilla rewrites Firefox in Rust: https://hub.packtpub.com/mozilla-engineer-shares-the-implications-of-rewriting-browser-internals-in-rust/Music covered include Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree's, Aion, and Mitski, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are WeSend us Fan Mail
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Mike and Erik talk about second systems and weigh whether we can ever even avoid the things in the first place. Acronyms loom large in this conversation, both IRS and AWS come up. Here are some links to things that we talked about in the show: Joel (not Jeff!) Spolsky post: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/IRS IMF: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/10/irs-details-strategy-for-replacing-its-most-ancient-computer-cod...
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