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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by HelloNurse on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:24AM (#19086758)
If there is a problem in an older API, it's probably time to update. That's understanding and mitigation.

The discussion is about the difference between updates when there's a valid reason and updates that are imposed by cloud providers, nobody advocates sticking with old software versions.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by lmm on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:44AM (#19086969)
> nobody advocates sticking with old software versions.

In my experience that's what any policy that doesn't include staying up to date actually boils down to in practice. Auditing old versions is never going to be a priority for anyone, and any reason not to upgrade today is an even better reason not to upgrade tomorrow, so "understanding and mitigation" tends to actually become "leave it alone and hope it doesn't break".

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