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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 1, 2015 6:01 AM, "Celso Providelo" <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> And we should, at least, think about the fact that the services (and
> the library) code is disposable. It's not meant to live forever, we
> still want to be able to drop one or more services off and re-write
> them entirely with some other technology if there is a need.

I need to really strongly disagree with this point. We're entering Year Two
of the temporary Google spreadsheet that was only meant to last a couple
months and is literally crumbling under the load we've put on it.

The old adage is really true, there is nothing quite so long lived as a
temporary solution.

Please take the time to do things properly instead of piling up crap that
just needs to get fixed later.

I think we as a company have maxed out our technical debt load and need to
pay it down sooner rather than later.