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by ragnarkon 1853 days ago
I work for a US-based company that has been trying to expand overseas for a decade or so by acquiring smaller companies overseas.

When we expanded into South America we bought a Brazilian company. I guess it didn't work out because within 2 years the company decided to shut down the Brazilian office and (unfortunately) all of the Brazilian-based developers were let go.

The website was handed over to us, and we were tasked with updating it to reflect the office was shutting down. It was written in a PHP framework I've never heard of, the dev and the prod websites were running on the same server, and it was obvious development was completed via SSH on the box itself. No git repo or pipeline or testing framework or anything like that.

We tried saving it but after 2-3 days we gave up and converted over to a static site hosted via S3.

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You tried saving it, and at the end you did :)