I am an Architect, Team Lead and a member of R&D Council in Visma Real Estate with 10+ years experience in .NET. Here I want to accumulate my thoughts and share some experience.
Maintain Your Systems
30 Dec, 2022
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5 min read
I did not touch this blog for almost a year but having several ideas for articles to write I came back to start posting. I have written some small instructions for myself in a `readme.md` file like: how-to configure the blog locally, create a new post and how to publish it, for situations like this, where there was a long pause since the last touch. So as soon as I started following my own instructions I was faced with several problems.
This reminded me about the several projects that I had encountered over the years with, lets put it politely, not so technically savvy management. Where the understanding of tech is usually one of: `if it is done - it is done`. Meaning that a lot of people, especially none-technical, think that they've already paid enough for the development of a solution so the product should live forever (okay, not forever, but at least for 5-10 years) without any maintenance or upgrades. This is wrong. Anything you build - you have to maintain always! And in this article I will describe a typical `why`...