Re:Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires
by Godel_unicode on Saturday April 02, 2016 @12:57AM
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This. Parents comment is typical of management, and frankly I applaud Google for having the confidence to ignore it rather than incurring all of the technical debt.
And this is all only about code, not about the cost of keeping the service running with good availability on old infrastructure.
The TL;DR is: Maintenance is never free.