It's honestly relieving to read all these stories because I feel like I am in the middle of this right now. Our legacy product is a mishmash of perl and php that was probably started in the early 2000s. Which I wouldn't feel bad about supporting if it wasn't for the new system that has been bolted on top of it. The previous team that started the migration is all gone and now we are halfway between two two systems that we have to support. On top of that my manager is afraid to say no to our eccentric CEO so we are flooded with new feature requests but can never get anything done because we spend so much time chasing down problems in the old system. Is there any sane way out of this? I just feel like I am white-knuckling it through every day.
hiddew|1 year ago