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submitted 2 months ago by lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But somewhere inside of you, it hurts, doesn't it? One more pile of infrastructure and code that ain't right, and it could have been different.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago

And of course, the next guy that comes in thinks the mess is your fault as opposed to an expression of organisational dysfunction.