Core — Legacy

Before you know it, you aren't strangling the fig. You are building a monument of around it. You now have a legacy core and a messy proxy layer. Congratulations, you have doubled your technical debt. The Uncomfortable Truth: It’s Not a Tech Problem If you are a CTO reading this, stop looking at your stack trace. The real barrier to fixing the legacy core is not technological—it is organizational risk aversion .

You don’t need a rewrite. You need a siege. legacy core

Finance loves the legacy core because it is predictable. Operations loves it because they know the failure modes. Product hates it because they can’t ship. Before you know it, you aren't strangling the fig