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by rainpain 1744 days ago
>The Bank of New York Mellon in 2012 found it had 112,500 individual COBOL programs.

OG microservices.

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I was auditing a bank’s data center once and found a working VAX that some guy had managed to keep off the inventory (along with a hundred other servers - he had his own little fiefdom going). The data center techs didn’t know what it was or who was responsible for it so they had just left it alone for as long as anyone could remember.