Locknote: The Albatross Project
summary
A 30‑year rebuild of a logistics system traces concrete choices and failures: starting with Informix 4GL and SSADM, moving to Gupta SQLWindows client‑server, outsourced ASP with stored‑proc HTML, then SOA/SOAP, .NET WPF + WCF + WF, Agile/Scrum with Jira, cloud and Terraform, Docker → Kubernetes, microservices ballooning to 244 GitHub repos before collapsing to a modular monolith, a DevOps department managing infra as code, and a last‑minute pivot to Microsoft Semantic Kernel + OpenAI + DALL·E3 that delays rollout and culminates in a spreadsheet‑driven catastrophe (12 million olives shipped).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 6:50Meetings
- 8:18Programming in 1994
- 13:22Microsoft Project
- 14:05Excel Spreadsheet
- 14:26Outsourcing
- 16:56SOA
- 18:13SOAP
- 20:30Rich Internet Applications
- 22:40Scrum
- 25:49Cloud
- 29:44DevOps
- 31:44Containers
- 35:10Logistics
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