Locknote: The Albatross Project
summary
A decades‑long corporate rewrite traces infomix 4GL dumb‑terminal screens to Windows 95 client/server, an offshored ASP system that returns HTML from SQL stored procedures, a WPF/WCF/XML/SOAP re‑write, and a migration to Azure before a microservices split that grows to 244 repos then back to a modular monolith after ThoughtWorks advice. Production features include warehouse robots (currently under three fatalities per month) and a launch delayed to add chat GPT AI routing and chatbots.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:33Albatross Project story
- 5:32Steve’s retirement speech
- 8:44Dumb terminals to Windows 95
- 13:06Rise of the internet and ASP
- 16:59Service-oriented architecture and SOAP
- 21:40Silverlight and Agile adoption
- 27:24Scrum, story points, and burnout
- 30:13Cloud migration and abstraction
- 33:11Flash death and universal language
- 36:03Microservices and DevOps chaos
- 39:36Serverless, Kubernetes, and future-proofing
- 42:12Modular monoliths and event sourcing
- 42:33AI integration and delays
- 45:44Spreadsheet uprising and conclusion
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