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When unemployment systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, COBOL was blamed. But what really failed?

> In order to care for technological infrastructure, we need maintenance engineers, not just systems designers--and that means paying for people, not just for products.

Wonder if this is getting better, at least for newer (than COBOL) technologies.

There's books like Your Code as a Crime Scene and Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails, along with ideas to address tech debt like No Broken Windows and Chesterton's Fence.

Service providers like Tidelift, who help sustain open source devs, and even upkeep companies that maintain Rails apps.

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