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by DarkNova6 1007 days ago
This 100%.

My last customer used an ETL tool to orchestrate their data loads between applications, but the only out of the box solution was a DB-Reader.

Eventually, no system could be changed without breaking another system and the central GIS system had to be gradually phased out. This also meant that everybody must had to use Oracle databases, since this was the "best supported platform".

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On the next iteration some consultancy will replace that with a bunch of microservices using a dynamic language.

When that thing fails again they will hopefully settle on a sane monolithic API.