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No different from "the team that built that is all gone, they left no doco, we assumed X, added the feature you wanted, but Y happened under load" , which happens a lot in companies pushing to market older than a minute.

My default assumption now, after watching dozens of post mortems, is that beyond a certain scale, nobody understands the code in prod. (edited added 2nd para)




Going to have to disagree with a lot of this based on my experiences.




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