alt Hacker News> Sometimes, a "bug" can be caused by nasty architecture with intertwined hacks
The joys of enterprise software. When searching for the cause of a bug let you discover multiple "forgotten" servers, ETL jobs, crons all interacting together. And no one knows why they do what they do how they do. Because they've gone away many years ago.
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silvestrov • yesterday at 8:44 AM
plus report servers and others that run on obsolete versions of Windows/unix/IBM OS plus obsolete software versions.
and you just look at this and thinks: one day, all of this is going to crash and it will never, ever boot again.
groestl • yesterday at 11:44 AM
And then it turns out the bug is actually very intentional behavior.
> searching for the cause of a bug let you discover multiple "forgotten" servers, ETL jobs, crons all interacting together. And no one knows why they do [..]
And then comes the "beginner's" mistake. They don't seem to be doing anything. Let's remove them, what could possibly go wrong?