I was literally told to set up this new service as quickly as possible and it didn’t need to be correct or best practice because this was just a proof of concept.
Here we are 6 months later and I’m still cleaning up my own mess.
I was literally told to set up this new service as quickly as possible and it didn’t need to be correct or best practice because this was just a proof of concept.
Here we are 6 months later and I’m still cleaning up my own mess.
The motto I got from working at an ISP was “There is nothing more permanent then a temporary fix.”
Similarly, I’ve heard, “nothing more permanent than a 3/4 solution”, i.e. it works well enough that fixing other things always ends up taking priority.
You should read the Red hat article about decommissioning a data center. Over the period of 20 years there is a crazy amount of works well enough and no one documented it.
Case in point, duct tape and Krazy Glue.