Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance
(tangentially related to this article)<p>I have recently come to realize that, at least in my world, source code older than five years is basically doomed.  Developers simply refuse to work on it.<p>The code that makes it to five years is extraordinary as most of it "dies" before reaching the eighteen month mark.<p>As a result I have recently been shifting my view to support replace-ability vs maintainability whenever possible.  I'm not totally sure how to achieve it, though.  Most current trends seem to be towards increasing baggage. (docker)<p>Data lives on and on and on, however.  Data is king.  :)