The Rewrite That Almost Killed Us
We decided to rebuild our platform from scratch. Eleven months later we had two systems, half a team and no new features. What I learned about technical debt and pride.
The Situation
By year three our platform was slow, fragile and built on decisions made by people who had left. Every new feature took weeks. A respected senior engineer proposed a clean rewrite: six months, modern stack, done properly.
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