Authoritative, yet simplistic assertions about reuse routinely bypass past experience of just how much work it takes to make something reusable.
Original: https://medium.com/@davidcarboni/reuse-a-recipe-for-disaster-822cbb46d3c6
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LINK: “IT Matters Again: The Enterprise of The Future Present”
But the real answer to the question depends on how IT is defined. If narrow definition is used and IT is taken to mean nothing more than base infrastructure, then Carr’s viewpoint remains correct. If, however, the definition of IT encompasses the entirety of an organization’s technology portfolio and strategy, however, the assertion that IT doesn’t matter could not be less accurate today.
Original: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/06/29/it-matters-again/
LINK: “Understanding legacy technology in government”
“I think we have to accept that there’s going to be legacy stuff out there, and there’s going to be unsupported systems. So it would be better to accept that we’ve got that and come up with strategies for how we’re going to manage that.”
Original: https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2018/05/24/understanding-legacy-technology-in-government/
LINK: “Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless”
The endless noise emanating from Silicon Valley essentially has two complementary elements. One is all about dreams so unlikely that they beggar belief: the idea that the Tesla CEO Elon Musk will one day set up a colony on Mars; or that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg can successfully marshal an attempt to “cure, prevent and manage” all diseases in a single generation. Whatever its basis in fact, this stuff casts people and corporations as godlike visionaries, and then provides a puffed-up context for the stuff the big tech companies shout about week in, week out: stuff we either don’t need or, worse, which threatens some of the basic aspects of everyday civilisation.
Original: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/21/big-tech-products-silicon-valley
LINK: “Fail by design: Banking′s legacy of dark code”
Is it modernize or die? Or modernize and die? For banks updating their computer systems with secure mobile features it can be both. Many run mainframes on legacy code that’s gone dark — no one understands it anymore.
Original: http://www.dw.com/en/fail-by-design-bankings-legacy-of-dark-code/a-43645522