(5) If you sell, God help whoever has to support that stuff in your new organization.
It would be interesting to know if an acquisition fell through because due diligence revealed something like this and the purchasing entity didn't want to deal with that mess or it conflicted with their culture.
Re:Web Development: A Crazy World
by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:17AM
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Absolutely not - no it manager worth their salt will pass up the opportunity to say - well we can do it but we will need more cash - we have to hire a ruby team a node team a ...
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(1) Code reuse, or lack thereof.
(2) Multiplication of surface area for things like security bugs... now you have five different stacks to keep track of security updates for instead of just one.
(3) Multiplication of deployment resources-- now you need multiple VMs, maybe multiple instances with different stacks to run them on, etc.
(4) Developers can't pinch-hit for each other unless they know every damn stack in the world.
(5) If you sell, God help whoever has to support that stuff in your new organization.