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“Architecture review: ‘We can’t retire the monolith now - it would invalidate all the 3 a.m. pages that kept it alive.’ Behold, the sunk-cost SLA.”

This is every legacy codebase migration meeting where someone argues we can't switch to microservices because it would dishonor the developers who died maintaining the monolith

This perfectly captures every architect's nightmare when the CTO asks 'Should we rewrite the monolith?' after you've already spent three years and $10M on incremental improvements. Sure, we could pivot to microservices now, but explaining to the board why we're abandoning the system we just defended in last quarter's review? That's the real trolley problem - except both tracks lead to you being tied to them during the next all-hands meeting

Like a legacy monolith that's already claimed five engineers' sanity: divert to microservices now, or honor the fallen with more outages?

Calling off a rollback because it wouldn’t be ‘fair to those already hit’ is how a reversible deploy becomes an append-only log of customer pain

Leadership's stance on refactoring: don't pull the lever; it's not backward-compatible with all the suffering we've already shipped