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Ask HN: When to walk away from a toxic project

Few months into a consultant job with a young A-round start-up job here in the states, i have discovered that several bad architecture decisions were made years ago by senior programmers that means their product wont scale without massive amounts of re-engineering. Simple stuff, lack of cloud architecture, zero capacity planning, low test coverage, no redundancy/load-balancing.As the customer...

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