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Re:Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to softw... by j2kun on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:31PM (#34333479)
> But if you have a monolith where you constantly keep the dependencies up to date - everything stays up to date.

At the expense of dependencies constantly breaking you, which itself contributes to bit rot by pissing off developers who find workarounds to pin their dependencies and/or switch to work on different products.

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Re:Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to softw... by jacobsenscott on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @11:48AM (#34340623)
This is not my experience, but we update our dependencies multiple times per month. Of course if you let them go for six months or a year you'll be in the situation you are talking about.
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