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@cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev •
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501204

  • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    I’ve been party to dumping legacy systems and lift & shifts a few times.

    Good fucking luck.

    Knowing nothign about this, a project like this would take at least 2 years even if you are dropping a ton of use cases and dependencies.

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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      I wonder if it will be web scale

      • @cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        Every time I watch it, I giggle 🤭

        • @StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world
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          Idk, something about the words “web scale” just sounds too funny

      • @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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        Yes. Because they’ll store everything in MongoDB.

      • @thejml@lemm.ee
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        How does that have less than a million views? My team and I quote/use/reference it so often.

      • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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        That takes me back

    • @arotrios@lemmy.world
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      Agreed (context: same legacy system work, 20 years), although given the size and scale of the tech debt involved, I’d peg it at 5 years if you had a team of 100+ COBOL developers.

      10 to do it right.

      Once you start dealing with databases older than SQL and languages older than C, things get funky real fast.

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